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  1. Go with the flow on Apple Gifts Top WebKit Contributors with MacBooks · · Score: 1
    'Nice' was once a BAD word. A few hundred years ago, It meant 'stupid'.

    Then it segued through some related meanings like 'picky', 'fastidious' etc

    Until it began to mean 'GOOD'

    Now it's been so overused that it's beginning to be used ironically, with a meaning like revoltingly sweet or cutesy, i.e. BAD...

    plus ca change...

  2. Market forces on Oracle to Layoff 2000 Jobs · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And Oracle India has been adding thousands of staff during past couple years.

    http://www.dqindia.com/dqtop20/2004/compdetails.as p?rank=19

    Good old market forces in action, folks. Nothing to see here, move along