Good news for green-inclined travelers today, online-travel giants Travelocity and Expedia are adding the option to balance out the greenhouse gases produced by flights, rental cars, even the average hotel stay, to their checkout pages.

The spread of highway/strip-mall culture, bad horror movies, differing state laws, paranoia, and legitimate fears about violent crime for both drivers and hitchers have pretty much done away with hitchhiking culture in much of the U.S. The folks at digihi

Not owning a car, and being a dedicated urban traveler, I’m a big fan of public transportation, and not just for the ability to get around faster and more cheaply, but for the typically slick-but-simple design package that goes along with it, too. Ergo,

Gadling pointed me today to a very slick new vlog called Scourist, that’s filmed and produced by travel blogger Jon Rawlinson of the RAD blog.

This year’s Webby Awards were handed out on Monday, with festivities at New York’s Cipriani, a brief performance by Prince and five-word thank-yous from the honorees.

John Batelle over at Searchblog posted yesterday about a new airfare search engine called Farecast that will track ticket prices historically to predict the cheapest period to fly to any given destination.

The video site Turn Here relaunched today with a spruce new design. The good news: a more navigable layout, links to videos featuring nearby locations, and new categories for searching and sorting clips.

Here’s a little travel knowledge test for your entertainment, from the good folks over at Lonely Planet.

So, it’s a week too late for a Cinco de Mayo fiesta, but if you ask me, anytime is a good time to celebrate Mexican food in San Francisco.

British writer and critic Sukhdev Sandhu is out to reclaim London’s once-creepy after dark hours from celebrity nightlife and the all-night cornershop by exploring the forgotten corners and overlooked professions of the nocturnal metropolis.