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Budget Travel has put together an impressive list of Weird Hotels from around the world.
Pictured above Hang Nga Guest House and Art Gallery, a complex that more than earns its local nickname, the Crazy House. (Courtesy upyernoz/Flickr)
To view all of the photo’s World’s Weirdest Hotels, Part Deux
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River View Observer “Site Seeing ” Bringing you interesting posts from around the internet”– A photo of a plus size model for a story about feeling comfortable in your own skin has resonated with women readers in Glamour Magazine’s September issue.
The photo which appeared on page 194 seems to have proven what women have known all the long- and Madison Avenue in the past has refused to convey  – Women come in all shapes, colors, and sizes.
READ the story from NEWSER Source -Read more to see the photo enlarged
Bob Dylan’s -A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways,
I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard,
And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall… In Long Branch, NJ?
In late July Music superstar Bob Dylan was questioned by Long Branch Police when they were called to investigate a suspicious man peeking into a vacant home. It was later found out Mr. Dylan did nothing wrong and was in the area on tour and was just looking at property.
Source Asbury Park Press Read the orginal story APP–
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This tremendously gifted artist Julian Beever uses chalk to render these 3D sidewalk drawings that will have you completely amazed at the depth of his work.
See more drawings The Chalk Guy
RiverView Observer “Site Seeing” Interesting Posts from around the Web-An Idea Who’s Time Has Come?Â
 Personal Vanity Urns
That’s right …A company has produced an urn that is  in the image of your loved one or favorite Celebrity.
New advances in reconstruction and 3D printing have made it possible to have an urn made in the image of anyone from just a photograph.
Source BoingBoing
 The first two billboards, unveiled on July 13th, showcase works by renowned New Jersey artists Tim Daly of Hoboken and Gary Godbee of Westfield.
The Palisades Highway Art Gallery is exhibiting original works by area artists on some of the largest and most-viewed canvases in the state – New Jersey’s highway and roadway billboards. We’ve picked prominent billboards on some of the most traveled roads throughout the Garden State to feature landscape artwork by New Jersey artists.
JERSEY CITY – Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy, members of the Municipal Council, and other city officials announce the opening of Easy Riders JC LLC bicycle rental and tour company in downtown Jersey City.
Easy Riders JC LLC allows both residents and tourists the opportunity to rent bicycles and explore the Jersey City Waterfront, Liberty State Park and the Statue of Liberty independently or through one of their guided tours. Continue reading BICYCLE TOUR AND RENTAL COMPANY OPENS ON THE JERSEY CITY WATERFRONT
Can Scavenger is Mulit -Millionaire…Who Knew?
“Tin-Can” Curt Degerman, a well-know aluminum can scavenger in the Swedish town of SkellefteÃ¥, was apparently a multi-millionaire when he died last year. He was apparently very thrift and also a shrewd investor. From Sweden’s The Local:
The relatives of a man who spent the last three decades collecting empty cans on the streets of a town in northern Sweden were surprised to learn he was worth millions when he died.
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You Tube’s  Top Ten Video’s of All Time
2008 has come and gone and You Tube’s 10 ten list shows what we were watching for the year-
UPDATE: Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition
But also take a look at the You Tube Video’s of all Time Below
As presented by Read Write Web-
Written by Richard MacManusÂ
YouTube has come to define the new era of online video, so let’s take a look at their most popular videos of all time.
I was expecting something like lonelygirl15 or the original menthos coke video to be number 1. But no, the most popular video of all time on YouTube, so far, has been Evolution of Dance by comedian Judson Laipply. It was added to YouTube on April 06, 2006 and has since gone on to attract 55.8 Million views. It’s had 60,476 comments, the first of which was: “That was freaking AWESOME! Thanks for sharing!!”. The comments for this video are still going strong today – the latest 10 comments have all come in the last 30 minutes, as of writing. Plus it’s been favorited 252,082 times (making it the number 1 Top Favorited video of All Time).
According to a SMH article at the end of 2006, Laipply is a comedian and motivational speaker from Cleveland, Ohio. The video shows him dancing a six-minute routine encompassing 32 songs spanning more than 50 years of music and dance. In many ways this is your typical YouTube video – a funny, goofy, short and clever video, in this case uploaded by and starring a professional comedian. But there are tens of thousands of similar videos on YouTube, uploaded by enthusiastic amateurs (mostly teens).
Incidentally, on Laipply’s website there is an accompanying cat video – proving once and for all that this success story was by and for the Web.
The next 3 most viewed YouTube videos are all music. Two of them professional, one amatuer.
2. Avril Lavigne’s Girlfriend video, uploaded by RCARecords 5 months ago, has amassed 50 Million views.
3. My Chemical Romance’s Famous Last Words is third, with 35M views.
4. Guitar, is fourth with 26M views. It’s 5 minutes of Queen-like guitar licks, by some very talented dude.
Rounding out the Top 10:
5. SNL – Digital Short – A Special Christmas Box (comedy)
6. Tuğba Özay ve 250.000ci GarantiArkadas. com Üyesi (I have no idea what this is)
7. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers (music)
8. xxx (the title and promo image give the impression it is porn, but in fact it’s a sappy Hong Kong pop video)
9. Beyonce ft. Shakira – Beautiful Liar (mv) (music)
10. Akon – “Don’t Matter” (music)
