Soundflavor, a company I’ve been working with, just relaunched their site and what I think is one of the coolest widgets around. Check out these. Play one or all of them. Best of all…

You can hit the Any Requests? button and enter a song or artist and listen to an instant playlist based on that pick.

Shoutouts to Ryan, Ken, Rick, Steve, Tom, Matt, Miki and the rest of the most excellent Soundflavor team. There’s a lot more you can do at the site, so check it out.

I know life is not fair when it comes to the amount of usable material one happens to get loaded in their noggin. But how can a person be pretty successful, well-traveled, and rub shoulders with some impressive people and still be so maddeningly stupid?

Here is Sharon Stone on the Chinese earthquakes:

“All these earthquakes and stuff happened and I thought, ‘Is that karma?’ When you are not nice, bad things happen to you.

“I’m not happy about how the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else.

“They’re not being very nice to the Dali Lama, who’s a good friend of mine.”

When you are allowed, by the greater forces in the universe, to make more than one statement this stupid, you prove that there is no such thing as karma.

A friend got me hooked on Chai Lattes. Needing a little more oomph this morning, I ordered one with a shot of espresso tossed in.

The person making the drink then asked, “Does the shot of espresso really make the drink stronger.”

I paused for awhile. And then I responded, “Um, yeah, I’m pretty sure it makes it one shot of espresso stronger?”

For some reason though, now I’m wondering if that was the right answer.

Shoulda got two shots.

I am officially going to stop patting myself on the back for jumping off of the high dive in junior high (something I did as recently as last weekend). Even thinking about what this guy is thinking about makes me ill.

Michel Fournier was set to attempt to break several records. Fastest freefall. Longest freefall (25 miles, yes miles), highest jump and highest altitude reached by a man in a balloon.

Luckily, his balloon left without him.

The simple brilliance of the The Ice Cream Man.

While watching Sweeney Todd, my wife wondered aloud about the origin of the Barber’s pole.

The web is pretty cool for such wonders.