I’m feeling somewhat in agreement with the idea going around that Australia’s new five dollar note design is a scheme to make Australia become a republic: make a design so ugly that Queen Elizabeth 2 formally requests her portrait be taken off it and dissociates herself from any future usage. Judge for yourself.

There’s been plenty of coverage about the refusal by the a movie advertising firm in the UK to accept an ad featuring the Lord’s Prayer to be featured in cinemas. Search around if you want to know more. There’s a variety of attitudes about the situation. So, while the ad will not be seen by …

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Those of us who know that Betamax was the superior format over rival VHS probably paused wistfully over the news that Sony will cease producing blank tapes for the ageing machines still in service early next year. Most of you will probably be hard pressed remembering when video stores had two different types of cassettes …

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