STANFORDS HOPE: The robot car named Junior passed the first of many city test yesterday and qualified for Urban Challenge this autumn. Google is one of many companies sponsoring “Junior”. The newly released Street View, which allows Google Earth-users to look around in the streets, is partly based on the technology developed at Standford, that were used in their previous robot car “Stanley”.

Carsten Höller has come up with an amazing slider for use anywhere. This might be the little extra that makes everyday at work a thrill.

To date Höller has installed six smaller slides in other galleries and museums, but the cavernous space of the Turbine Hall offers a unique setting in which to extend his vision. Yet, as the title implies, he sees it as a prototype for an even larger enterprise, in which slides could be introduced across London, or indeed, in any city. How might a daily dose of sliding affect the way we perceive the world? Can slides become part of our experiential and architectural life?

Have a look for yourself and tell me what you think (about that)?

An exhibition of human corpses is offering a new opportunity for life after death that’s as easy as filing in a simple form. Then you have to die, of course.

Body Worlds, a controversial yet wildly popular travelling exhibit of real human bodies and body parts, has been raising eyebrows since it was first displayed in 1996.

Even though it looks fascinating it’s definitely a bit creepy. I for one keep asking myself if these “guys” shouldn’t be buried somewhere and if remaining family and/or friends don’t miss a grave to go to…

Sun Microsystems lives up to its name and puts energy efficiency at its core. Why? Computers draw 4-5 percent of total world power, its eco-boss tells Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick.

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Representatives from Mozilla, Apple and Opera Software have sent a new proposal to the newly established HTML Working Group at W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) suggesting that the work the group is doing developing HTML (HyperText Markup Language) should be based on what we refer to as HTML5.

HTML5 is the global name tag for solutions developed by WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) in the specifications of Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0. The first focusing on how one can create web based applications more easily, while the second describes how browsers should treat web forms.

In the letter, which is signed by people like Brendan Eich (Mozilla Foundation) and Håkon Wium (Opera Software), it is suggested that the future HTML-version from W3C should be named HTML 5.

The 3 companies also promises to give W3C none-exclusive copyright on the HTML 5 specifications if the work group accepts the propositions.

The first answering rounds indicates that a lot of people consider it madness not to base the future work on what’s already been done by WHATWG. While others are more sceptical and wishes for a more thorough revision of the suggested specifications.