You might have noticed MNStories’ “Uptown Art Car Parade” clip in our featured videos today. “MNStories” is actually Chuck Olsen, a filmmaker and blogger who runs a site called Minnesota Stories.

Today marks the unofficial 40th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution, an event that, in China, will pass unrecognized due to a PRC government decree.

Like a slice of roadside Americana gone global, PBS’ web-only feature “Off the Map�? tours 10 artistic oddities in the US, Africa, Asia and Europe.

Since Newsweek’s latest issue is trumpeting the not-so-very-recent development of user-generated sites like flickr and MySpace, it seems like a good moment to take stock of what the .com’s second coming offers in terms of travel info.

Just when you thought there was no new way to see Europe, comes this piece of news about one filmmaker’s deliberate act of travel anachronism – walking from Spain to Ukraine, call it Slow Travel.