Do you have the Google+ app on your smartphone? This winter it is doing something clever and fun with some of your photographs. It’s adding snow. There’s a catch. Google’s Auto Awesome Snow (as it’s called) does not add snow to every picture; just to some. To test this and to remind readers about good […]
A look at The Secret Lives of Married Women
I’ll be honest. I didn’t fully appreciate the scope and depth of this novel until I was partway through. And that is not at all because the panty dropping forays increased in intensity at that point. Once into the meatier half of Elissa Wald’s book, I found myself drawing entirely new and startling conclusions about […]
It’s hard to be a grumpy cat at Christmas
Whether you agree with Nestle’s corporate social responsibility policies or not there’s a good chance you’ll be using one of their pet food brands if you’ve an animal or two. They own Purina and Friskies, for example, the company founded in 1930 as a dog food producers and then expanding into cat food 28 years […]
Watch this mouse decorate a Christmas tree
Merry Christmouse. If you want to see more of what these trained mice can do you can check out Mouse Agility over at facebook/smartmice. You’ll be joining some 4,000 plus curious mice loving folk. In Pure Spirit Do you have any weird and wonderful Christmouse or Christmas stories?
This TV ad for tires will give you a fright!
Ready for a fright? Sit back, hold on tight and watch… this Japanese ad for tires. Whether it’s car insurance, sites that compare car insurance, broken windscreens, tire repair or the dreaded M.O.T. this is big business in the UK and across the world. That’s why you get so many annoying TV ads. They don’t […]
Competition: Win Wallace and Gromit – the Complete Newspaper Strips (volume 1)
Are you a Wallace & Gromit fan? Yeah? Have you read all their newspaper strips? This hardback (RRP £10) from Titan Books has all 52 weeks, 52 stories and 312 individual stories. Expect chaos, madness and silly fun. You might also expect encounters with out-of-control electronic scarecrows as this is the Wallace & Gromit: The […]
Banana Loch Ness monster
What’s your favourite photograph of the Loch Ness monster? Is it a fake? This Loch Ness monster is certainly faked. It’s a banana not a monster. It’s a puddle not Loch Ness. Despite that; take a look and you’ll still think “I recognise that shape! It’s the Loch Ness monster!” In Pure Spirit The internet […]
Competition: Adventure Time comic book bundle!
At the start of the year In Pure Spirit gave a way a copy of Adventure Time v1 in an easy to enter competition. Now you have a chance to win Adventure big Time! There are three prizes up for grabs and they’ll go to one lucky winner. First up there’s Adventure Time (Vol.2) (RRP […]
Dragon skull on Etsy
The Antique Art Collection have an impressive “dragon skull” for sale on Etsy. Of course, it’s not a real dragon skull but a wonderfully carved horse skull. If you want to see more pictures of his impressive, arcane and perhaps slightly freaky item then pop over to their online gallery. In Pure Spirit What do […]
Ouija board coffee table and carpet concept
Sadly this set of coffee table, rug and chairs isn’t a real thing. It’s a concept done for Halloween by Dave Delisle. Inspired by the likes of Supernatural and Buffy, these chairs are for geeks and paranormal fans who can afford posh furniture. Dave suggests that the wooden table would be on wheels and that […]
