With a nod to the talking portraits at Harry Potter's Hogwarts, Matt Mills - head of innovation at the Cambridge start-up Aurasma - showed the TED audience a picture of the famous Scot.

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Head geek Harry Knowles has been talking up the movie to the fan boy crowd which could spur good word of mouth.

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It ran three TV ads in Johnson's district around the time of the April 15 deadline for filing tax forms with the IRS. In Harry and Louise fashion, the ads featured everyday Americans talking about their future pensions, about taxes so high that parents are forced to leave their children to go to work and about taxpayers' problems with IRS audits.

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