The folks at Google have released a partial map of the moon, based on their exisiting mapping sites.

TIP: Try zooming all the way in!!

In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit to our celestial neighbor. Happy lunar surfing. More about Google Moon.

* Google Moon

* Google Earth

museumpeace writes “News.com has posted its second story in a week on a hopeful Grand Challenge contender. Standford’s Stanley, a VW Taureg run by 100000 lines of code can hit 40 mph and has now traversed all but 3 miles of last year’s desert course without problems. A few days earlier, CMU’s Team Red announced that its Sandstorm, a modified Hummer, had run 200 miles without any problems though on a closed track. DARPA cut the field to 40 in June and will cut it to 20 before the race in October.”

* Slashdot | DARPA Grand Challenge A Real Race At Last?

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yellowTAB’s Zeta 1.0 is based on the legendary BeOS from Be Inc. BeOS was really cool for it’s time when it first came out, however as we all know companies started focusing seriously on Windows as the main Corporate Desktop systems, which resulted in it’s demise. Be Inc. was acquired by Palm, Inc. in 2001, and later the source was open-sourced in some form (please refer to other sources for more precise history of BeOS).

Provataki writes “OSNews’ Thom Holwerda posted the first in-depth review of the recently released Zeta 1.0. He goes over installation, impressions, usage, application and hardware support, BFS queries and concludes that yellowTAB’s Zeta is the deserving future of BeOS; plus, it’s the only one based on the original source code by Be, Inc.”

* Slashdot | yellowTAB’s Zeta 1.0 Reviewed

sebFlyte writes “As Firefox moves swiftly towards 1.1 and Internet Explorer keeps trundling towards IE7, ZDNet UK has an interesting set of articles about Mozilla. Among other things, they look at the history of Firefox all the way from the pre-phoenix days, and have an interview with chief evangelist Asa Dotzler looking at what has driven the browsers success and why he thinks the release of IE7 will cause a massive boost in the uptake of Firefox.”

* Slashdot | The Future of Firefox