Welcome

Hello.  Not a lot of people know that Google has a huge archive of scanned newspapers available to browse at http://news.google.com.au/newspapers.  In particular, they have The Age from 1851 to 1989.  The premise of this blog is simple: I find articles and other bits and pieces from old copies of The Age that in 2012 are interesting, funny or poignant and make smart-arsed comments about them. Let's get clipping.