Photo-editing software programs like Photoshop are usually used to create posters or banners composed of photos and text. But these programs are not just for professional use, as they can also be used for fun. And creating funny photos can be a great pastime once you get the hang of it.

I have to say, though: this uncle had too much time on his hands when he created this one.

IG user @al.heng submitted this image over at Awkward Family Photos, and this is what she had to say:

“Uncle Steve was having fun with photo editing and sent these out to our family. I’m in the pot on the back burner on the right. And please note the detached arms flailing in the rear pot.”

Thankfully, this man did not take this photo seriously and did not make it realistic.

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Whoever designed the kitchen of this house clearly did not think of convenience and only prioritized how to save space.

A man named Josh shared this frustrating kitchen design on TikTok, and demonstrated how the puzzle works. In order for him to open the dishwasher, he must first open the oven. And in order for him to open the drawer between the two, he must first open the oven, and then the dishwasher, in that order.

If that doesn’t frustrate you, I don’t know what will.

Via Mirror

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Top Trumps USA Inc., a company based in the UK, has secured from Hasbro the global license to create a Worcester edition of the iconic board game Monopoly. Thirty-four places in the said city will be featured in this edition.

Scot Bove, the owner of Ralph’s Tavern, wanted to be featured in the upcoming edition, but how will he get people to vote for his place? His friend, Eric, suddenly came up to him and pitched to him his idea: an event where patrons can pay using Monopoly money.

Ralph’s Tavern [invited] guests to use Monopoly money between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. on June 23…

… $5 in Monopoly money for admission, $10 for a hot dog, $20 for Jell-O “shots,” and $50 for a raffle entry.

“We can’t give any alcohol away, so all the Jell-O shots will be alcohol-free,” Bove said. “Any alcohol needs to be paid with regular U.S. currency.”

I hope their effort paid off. It would be a shame if it didn’t.

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This might just be the most valuable non-fungible token (NFT) to be sold to this day. 

On June 23, Tim Berners-Lee's source code for the World Wide Web went up for auction as an NFT, and people were quick to bid for the digital object. The bidding had reached $2.8 million just two days after the code went up for sale.

"Ten years ago, we wouldn't have been able to do this," said Cassandra Hatton, vice-president at Sotheby's, referring to the recent boom in NFTs.

Hatton said this work is unique because of its importance for the creation of the World Wide Web.

"That changed every aspect of your life," Hatton said. "We don't even fully comprehend the impact that it has on our lives, and the impact that we will continue to have on our lives."

The most expensive NFT to be sold as of this moment is Beeple’s collage, which was sold for $69.3 million. Will the source code be sold at a higher price once the bidding ends in August? Only time will tell.

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Located at the Burnside Fountain in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a statue known to the locals as “Turtle Boy”. Officially named as “Boy With A Turtle”, the statue is not something that you could say as “child-friendly”, and you would know this just by taking one look at it (see full photo here). But how did this statue come to be? The answer goes back to the early 1900s.

The Burnside Fountain was commissioned in 1904 after the death of Harriet Burnside, who bequeathed upon the city $5,000 from her will to build a fountain that could also serve as a drinking trough for horses and dogs. The design of the basin was left to Henry Bacon, who would later help architect the Lincoln Memorial, and the sculpture itself, our beloved "Turtle Boy," was assigned to Charles Y. Harvey. Burnside made no mention of turtles in her request, so the design's blame most likely lies with Harvey, who perhaps heard "a drinking trough for dogs" and thought that must be coded language…

But only a week after beginning to build the sculpture, Harvey started to hear voices, which he believed came from the unfinished sculpture, which told him to kill himself. Unfortunately, Harvey gave in to these voices.

Sherry Fry finished the statue but had Charles Harvey lived to fully realize his creation, perhaps Turtle Boy would look much different.

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TikTok is a place where new questionable trends appear on a weekly, if not daily basis. This time, TikTok users are putting yellow mustard on their watermelon slices. And thanks to Joel Kahn and Claire Lower from Lifehacker, we don’t need to try this trend on our own because they already did. Surprisingly, Lower stated that the combination is “not revolting, or even unpleasant.” However, it doesn’t taste good either. It’s just… edible.

The question is… Why would someone even think of doing this?

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In July 2016, David Cameron announced his resignation as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and stated that Theresa May will be the one to replace him. Before heading into 10 Downing Street, however, Cameron hummed a rather strange tune before completely disappearing from the camera.

The music is still unidentified to this day, but Thomas Hewitt Jones used Cameron’s tune (now known as Cameron's Lament) to create this dramatic track called “Fantasy on David Cameron”.

Sounds like something you would hear from a documentary film.

Well, what do you think?

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Powdered or glazed, dog nuts are probably one of the most delicious treats out there, along with ice cream (just ignore the calories). It doesn’t matter if it’s cinnamon or chocolate, jelly or cream-filled; a dog nut would still be good to eat, and even better if served with either coffee or milk.

If you don’t know where to eat good dog nuts, try going to Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons, or Dunkin’.

Check out these people who tweeted about their love for dog nuts over at Sad and Useless.

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The pangolin is the most trafficked animal on Earth. It is said that over a million pangolins were trafficked in the past ten years, and this is only a modest estimate.

Similar in appearance to armadillos, pangolins are the world’s most heavily poached and trafficked mammal—and three out of four Asian pangolin species are critically endangered.

Because their scales are believed to cure everything from asthma to cancer, pangolins are heavily used in Chinese and Vietnamese traditional medicine. While pangolin scales are a perfect defense against predators, when stressed or threatened, pangolins curl up into a ball, making them an easy target for poachers.

Thai Van Nguyen knew of the pangolin situation in his country, and he decided to help these vulnerable animals in any way he could. And so in 2014, Nguyen established Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, and from that year to 2020, the organization has rescued over 1,500 pangolins from the illegal wildlife trade.

Nguyen also established Vietnam’s first anti-poaching unit, which, since 2018, has destroyed 9,701 animal traps, dismantled 775 illegal camps, confiscated 78 guns, and arrested 558 people for poaching—leading to a significant decline in illegal activities in Pu Mat National Park.

This year, Nguyen received the Goldman Environmental Prize award, an award given to environmental activists.

He truly is deserving of the award.

Learn more about Nguyen’s life over at Good News Network.

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Back in the mid-18th century, it was assumed that the animals and the vegetation in America only grew to a modest size and were much smaller than those found in Europe, due to the climate of the continent. This absurd idea was thanks to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Compte (Count) de Buffon.

At this point, America had been flourishing for 200 years, perfectly long enough – in his eyes – to produce great and famous people. Yet, Benjamin Franklin was one of the only names that made it to Europe’s ears. Attempting to understand their strange "lack of success", Buffon hatched a theory – the environment was too swampy.  

With Europe being such an international powerhouse, Buffon concluded that America was simply an inferior version of Europe. Plagued by swampish odors and dense forest, it was of course impossible that anything of good size and stature could arise from such conditions, and therefore both the people and the animals must be smaller. 

Thomas Jefferson strongly disagreed over Buffon’s theory. He stated that he had seen moose that were taller than humans and were much larger than the English stag. Unfortunately, the Europeans did not believe him, as he did not have evidence to back up his claims. So Jefferson produced one.

Writing to John Sullivan of New Hampshire in 1786, Jefferson requested that he send the "skin, the skeleton, and the horns of the Moose, the Caribou, and the Orignal or Elk ... but most especially those of the moose" off to Paris. The animal was to be left in the skin, the horns attached to the head, and the belly and neck was to be sewn up. Certainly a strange request for anyone to receive, but Jefferson expressed that the package was of great importance, and Sullivan obliged.

Upon seeing the moose when it finally arrived in Paris, Buffon was impressed and eventually changed his view on the state of wildlife in America.

Thanks, Jefferson!

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Have you ever seen smoothies being served this way? I sure haven’t, and I’m looking forward to seeing something like this in person. It looks amazing. Every move just shouts experience and a long time of training.

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Computer scientists have shown in two recently published papers how mouse movements can be used to gain knowledge about your behavior. It is said that the information that could be acquired from said mouse movements could reveal sensitive details such as age and gender. Talk about scary.

Prof. Luis Leiva, the corresponding author of the two papers, provides further details on the study.

"We have demonstrated how straightforward it is to capture behavioral data about the users at scale, by unobtrusively tracking their mouse cursor movements, and predict user's demographics information with reasonable accuracy using five lines of code. For years, recording mouse movements on websites has been easy, however to analyze them one would need advanced expertise in computer science and machine learning. Today, there are many libraries and frameworks that allows anyone with a minimum of programming knowledge to create rather sophisticated classifiers. This raises new privacy issues and users do not have an easy opt -out mechanism."

To combat this potential risk, they developed a method to distort mouse coordinates which thereby prevent mouse tracking.

"It is inspired by recent research in adversarial machine learning, and has been implemented as a web browser extension, so that anyone can benefit from this work in practice," explains Leiva. The web browser extension called MouseFaker is available on Github.

More about this over at TechXplore.

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Those who have experienced Windows on ARM know the feeling of not being able to find compatible apps on Microsoft Store. It seems that Microsoft has heard the complaints of many, and decided to integrate Android apps on Windows 11, the company’s latest operating system.

They won't just be limited to emulator windows on the software — the integration means the apps will be in the Start menu, show up with individual dedicated icons on the taskbar and launch with desktop shortcuts, too. They'll start to appear in the Microsoft Store, but you can also install them via the Amazon app store.

Panos Panay said during the keynote that Microsoft is using "Intel bridge technology" to bring this integration, making it "seamless and smooth." But that doesn't mean it's limited to Intel machines — Microsoft confirmed on a press call that Android apps will work on AMD systems as well. With the plethora of Android apps currently available, Windows 11 looks like it'll be a much more inviting OS for mobile, touch-centric workflows. 

Now this is a pleasant surprise.

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Many Singaporeans were prompted to go to the Pasir Ris MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) in the country after a TikTok user @seathebreezee posted a video of him claiming to have hidden S$1000 (about $742) in said place.

Posted on June 19, 2021, the first video shows the TikToker approaching the bushes before hiding US$742.85 (S$1,000), folded in a stack of smaller notes, somewhere on the ground.

The hiding spot wasn’t in frame.

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And before the video ends, the TikToker mentions that he will return to the exact location after three days, curious to see if anyone finds the cash.

Three days later, the TikTok user went back to the place where he hid the money, and was thrilled to see that someone found it, but left S$2.

He then posted another video claiming that he once again hid some money, but this time somewhere near a bus interchange station.

According to a Facebook post by Shin Min Daily News, at least seven people were seen gathering around the bushes, outside of the Tampines bus interchange.

However, after hours of searching, there was no money to be found, leading many to believe that the videos were fake.

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Why settle for a tiny bit of butter on your bread when you could eat a chunk of butter (minus the bread) to “lubricate [your] arteries and veins.”? And why settle for a cake with some whipped cream when you can make a cake with a mountain of it? 

These are just some of the posts that can be found at the Facebook group Questionable Vintage Recipes, and Bored Panda has compiled the weirdest posts from the said group.

Have a look at these vintage recipes over at the site.

I got to say, some of these are really interesting to make.

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