http://www.myblogspan.com/index.php Myblogspan RSS Feed en-us http://www.myblogspan.com/images/blogs/myblogspan-rss-6720.jpg http://www.myblogspan.com/index.php 10075 http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/more-on-the-satyam-pwc-scandal.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/more-on-the-satyam-pwc-scandal.php Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:54:04 GMT The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporate governance regimes with laws like Sarbanes-Oxley.

But nothing will be fixed until the issue of auditor independence and integrity is addressed. As Angur points out, the company was ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/unique-soft-drinks-from-around-the-world.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/unique-soft-drinks-from-around-the-world.php Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:45:45 GMT A soft drink is a beverage that does not contain alcohol. Carbonated soft drinks are commonly known as pop, soda pop, soda, cola, coke or tonic in various parts of the United States, pop in Canada, fizzy drinks, pop or soft drinks in the United Kingdom and Australia and sometimes minerals in Ireland.

Here are some popular and unique softdrinks from around the world.

(thanks ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/super-stylish-twin-engine-four-seater-plane.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/super-stylish-twin-engine-four-seater-plane.php Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:41:07 GMT Aircraft aren’t usual Ferret-faire but I couldn’t go past the Diamond DA42. It’s a gorgeous mix of the WWII P38 Lighting blended with state-of-the aerodynamics and a brilliant ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/potato-portraits.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/6-2009/potato-portraits.php Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:50:37 GMT Ginou Choueiri is a Lebanese artist, based in Beirut. She says:

I chose the potato to portray the human face due to it"s many striking parallels. Not only is their skin porous like ours but they also come in different colors, shapes and sizes. Potato heads grow, sprout, age, then decay..... but they refuse to go without a ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2009/silver-seal-washable-keyboard.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2009/silver-seal-washable-keyboard.php Sat, 02 May 2009 15:09:57 GMT Tossing that dirty keyboard into a tub of warm soap water for a clean-up is no longer an urge that you have to repeatedly supress due to those well-understood, practical reasons. The Silver Seal washable keyboard adds a simple and utterly sensible innovation to the normal keyboard to fend off the disastrous consequences - waterproofing. A gotcha moment for you too there, wasn"t it ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2009/xpress-digital-photo-editor.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2009/xpress-digital-photo-editor.php Sat, 02 May 2009 14:20:30 GMT Here's an opportunity to try out a great digital photo editing software package for free, for 2 months, and then keep the "Xpress" package for free ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2009/how-to-check-drug-side-effects-online.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/5-2009/how-to-check-drug-side-effects-online.php Sat, 02 May 2009 13:24:09 GMT David Rothman has recently linked to RateADrug.com and ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/edible-business-cards.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/edible-business-cards.php Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:37:48 GMT Edible Business Cards.It"s true that business cards are for contact information, but businesses have come up with an innovative idea; imaginative and deliciously edible business cards are the need of the day. These contain all the basics like the personal and the business information. Here are some truly memorable business cards that help brighten up the usual process of exchanging the normal business cards.

Chocolate Business Card:

A business card made of chocolate of Intellectual Property Law Firm.

Completely Edible Business Cards:

100% discreet business ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/cassette-tape-portraits.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/cassette-tape-portraits.php Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:55:02 GMT Cassette Tape Portraits.Most of us discard cassette tapes when we are through with them, but not all, there are always exceptions. And here the exception is artist iri5, who turns them into work of art. He has created portraits of well-known musicians such as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Ian Brown, … from recycled cassette tapes. He specializes in using non traditional media such as old books, cassettes, playing cards, magazines, credit cards and many more or whatever he can find. He prefers to work with unusual things, older material or "things that have a mind of their own". Wow! ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/loves-me-loves-me-not.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/loves-me-loves-me-not.php Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:56:01 GMT Loves Me, Loves Me Not is a game of French origin, in which one person seeks to determine whether the object of their affection returns that affection or not. A person playing the game alternately speaks the phrases "loves me," and "loves me not," while picking one petal off a flower for each phrase.

The phrase they speak on picking off the last petal supposedly represents the truth between the object of their affection loving them or not.

(thanks ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/legal-drinking-age-around-the-world.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/legal-drinking-age-around-the-world.php Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:52:07 GMT The is a limit assigned by governments to restrict the access of children and youth to alcoholic beverages. Legal drinking ages vary from country to country, and sometimes, within a particular country. In most countries the legal age to purchase alcohol is either 16 or 18, but there are considerable variations: some countries do not recognize a drinking age and have children as young as 5 who drink wine.

Its a very common thing in some cultures for everyone in the family to have a glass of wine at dinner; others outlaw drinking; and still others, like India, mandate a drinking age as ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/sushi-on-bloor-shut-down.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/4-2009/sushi-on-bloor-shut-down.php Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:49:44 GMT Sushi on Bloor has been shut down. Score one for New Generation and Sushi 101 in the ongoing Bloor street sushi wars. Apparently they have fewer unwanted, uh, visitors (or better food handling) than the spot that was voted #1 cheap sushi restaurant in Toronto by readers of this site. ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2009/le-bistro-portion-control-pet-feeder.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2009/le-bistro-portion-control-pet-feeder.php Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:03:20 GMT The Le Bistro Portion Control Pet Feeder features programmable meal dispensing for smaller pet types. So you can set the thing up to serve out set meal sizes from the hopper and never have to worry again about your precious animal getting fat related diseases. Just don’t try using it with your Great Dane OK? Unless you want the pooch to end up with a sheepish grin and bits of torn plastic between the teeth. ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2009/a-booklet-from-any-pdf-document.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/3-2009/a-booklet-from-any-pdf-document.php Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:55:26 GMT Booklet Creator is an awesome free online application which creates booklets out of any PDF file. Just upload your file, wait a few seconds and download a freshly formatted version which has the page ordering all set for booklet printing. This is superb stuff. It’s fast and available with useful customisation features like specifying the size of booklet and number of pages. It won’t work with password protected files (of course). ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/icing-transformation-challenge.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/icing-transformation-challenge.php Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:01:11 GMT Photo by ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/the-turning-heads.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/the-turning-heads.php Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:52:05 GMT Thomas Woodruff’s series Solar System (aka The Turning Heads) is a parade of super magical otherworldliness with a twist - every painting from this series is meant to be flipped, thereby revealing an inverse meaning.
]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/amazing-cityscape-art-made-from-unusual-objects.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/amazing-cityscape-art-made-from-unusual-objects.php Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:42:17 GMT Most of us played with building blocks to create our own make believe buildings and cities. Fortunately, not all of us outgrew this habit.

Here are some cityscape artworks made from unusual objects like eggs, cookware, and Jell-O. ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/amazing-cityscape-art-made-from-unusual-objects.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/amazing-cityscape-art-made-from-unusual-objects.php Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:40:09 GMT Most of us played with building blocks to create our own make believe buildings and cities. Fortunately, not all of us outgrew this habit.

Here are some cityscape artworks made from unusual objects like eggs, cookware, and Jell-O. ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/toronto-behind-the-boarding.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/2-2009/toronto-behind-the-boarding.php Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:12:18 GMT The demolition signs around part of Toronto"s Junction foretell the imminent doom of the Bunge industrial complex. The company produced a variety of edible food oils, and the complex itself housed both the administrative as well as the production side of its business. A fire prior to its closure ensured that the aesthetic environment of the abandoned premises would include much of the complex"s content: the tools of both blue and white collar workers. These items - some of which are severely fire-damaged - suggest the chaos of the building"s final days. Besides offering some incredible views ......... ]]> http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2009/jessica-alba-lashes-out-at-bill-oreilly.php http://www.myblogspan.com/blogs/permalinks/1-2009/jessica-alba-lashes-out-at-bill-oreilly.php Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:27:52 GMT Jessica Alba took to her blog to defend herself after right-wing TV news pundit Bill O"Reilly suggested that the actress was "dumb". The Sin City star used her MySpace.com blog to defend herself after O""Reilly called her "misguided" for poking fun at a journalist during an inauguration event last week, reports Us magazine.

The new mum asked the reporter what he liked most about new U.S. President Barack Obama, and when he refused to answer, she joked, "That"s it, be neutral. Be Sweden about it." Following the comment, TMZ.com called her a "ditz" and an "arrogant buffoon" for saying ......... ]]>