I read several blogs. I guess it’s just a side effect of needing information. I use RSS feeds in my web browser’s bookmark menu bar to see at a glance when something new has been posted. Depending on where I am and which stack of bookmarked feeds I’m accessing I may see the number of new posts and most of the title (Safari, at home), a portion of the title (Firefox, mostly news sites with a few work-related blogs, at the office) and a handful of dismal offerings on my laptop (Firefox).

Most of the posts are mundane — the latest gadget or software, a socio-economic situation somewhere in the world, the latest way this hour to save the planet. Most posts are worthy of more thought but given the medium they are presented in a quick glance at the headline and the occasional peek at the lead-in or comments are usually all the time I give them. Call it information grazing.

But today there was gold in them thar blogs!

On Boing Boing was this: [citation needed] stickers for graffiti — better known as wikiffiti. Based on the practise on Wikipedia of asking for a citation for a dubious claim or fact, except these stickers go underneath graffiti. Culture jamming at its finest.

The WebUrbanist posted a collection of the Top 5 Unusually Green Vehicles from 2007. I was expecting the latest-greatest electric vehicle (that will save the planet) or the latest-greatest bio-fuel cell (that will save the planet). But the vehicles here are closer to art projects than science fair projects.

Treehugger features recycled hotels around the world. Recycled, as in made out of other things. Like drain pipes. After I trek to this swank tent hotel in Chile and make a stop at Amanwana in Indonesia I’ll book a room, er drain, at this place. The Unusual Hotels of the World website has hundreds more.

And finally this on Digg (where else?). Pancakes. In a spray can. You spray the pancake batter out of the can. Just like cheez. And it’s organic!