Net-Warriors

From the world of competitive astronomical websites (isn’t the Internet grand?) comes this new offering from Microsoft, WorldWide Telescope. Like others before it Microsoft’s new offering allows users to explore planets and other celestial objects. You can also view/track objects from any place on earth and in any point in time. Of course as you might expect from Microsoft there’s more going on than that. There is a lot of imagery from NASA including the Mars rovers, Hubble telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. There are also ‘tours’ set up by expert astronomers or you can even save your own ‘5 year missions’.

Like with Google’s ‘The Sky’ or the open source Stellarium users must first download the free WorldWide Telescope software from Microsoft (windows only).

WorldWide Telescope (via BBC News)

Interactive Panoramas (or VR Photography) is a relatively new media that creates a panoramic view that immerse the viewer ‘inside’ the image. This is far far more advanced than the kinds of panoramas you can make with your digital camera and stitching software. Using your mouse you can view from side to side or top to bottom and all points in between of some fantastic imagery taking by Interactive Panorama photographers from all over the world and collected and displayed by Hans Nyberg a commercial photographer in Denmark.

There are over 400 stunning interaftive images of every thing from the Oslo Opera House to Death Valley, from the Oscars to Carnival In Rio. A truly stunning collection in a format that’s as close as you can get to being there from your PC.

Eiffel Tower – 360 Interactive Image

Collection Home – tons of images

Perusing this site we found hotels in caves, igloos, trains, and one even inside of a giant dog.

While there are several interesting and certainly creative hotels and locations for hotels, without a doubt our favorite is the Woodpecker Hotel in Vasteras, Sweden which is located “13 meters up the biggest oak tree in the Wasapark in the center of Vasteras”.

In addition to browsing by categories the site also features an interactive map that allows you to find hotels by location.

Unusual Hotels Of The World