Links for 16th January 2009
Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs…
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"Foreclosures have turned banks into property management companies," said Heather Fernandez, a spokeswoman for Trulia.com, the real estate Web site. "And it's often cheaper for them to give these homes away rather than try to get market value for them."
Tagged with: USA • economy • housing • foreclosure •
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Bioethicists Save Organ Donation by Tweaking the Definition of Death
"Doctors and bioethicists proposed a new standard: if both high- and low-level brain function stopped in a person, and could never be recovered, they were dead, even though machines preserved an appearance of life. A body in this condition is, in medical parlance, a "ventilated, heart-beating cadaver" — and these cadavers are the primary source of vital organs used in transplantation."
Tagged with: life • death • ethics • medicine • organ • donor • law • bioethics •
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45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience
A Smashing Mag round-up, so naturally full of good shizzle.
Tagged with: webdev • tutorial • resources • list • javascript • jquery • ui •
