Artist Mike Boon, who designed the cute Dr. Seuss alphabet and other neat alphabets featured on Neatorama a while ago, is back with this clever Periodic Table of the Muppets. See if you can identify your favorite characters!

Forget the sermon, the best part of chuch comes from this gospel choir singing You Need to Keep Yo Business Off of Facebook:

Keep yo business off of Facebook
Keep yo business off of Facebook
Sunday you actin' like a saint - but yo Facebook status say you ain't
Keep yo business off of Facebook

Word, peeps! Now who's gonna share this on Facebook? Via The Clearly Dope

You haven't had a bender until you had one where you ended up in a cargo container, about to be shipped out to sea.

In an epic tale that will undoubtedly be told for generations to come, Jiang Wu of Qingdao, China, got drunk and mistakenly thought that a shipping container was a bed and breakfast he was staying. When he woke up, Wu found that he was sealed inside.

Thankfully, Jiang still had his cell phones so he called the police. "His problem was, though, that he couldn't tell us which container he was in and there were thousands of them stacked on top of each other," said the police spokesman. The police finally found him in a container stacked 60 feet off the ground by following the sound he made by banging on the container's metal side.

"He's very lucky. If he'd been asleep for another hour the next stop would have been America," said a dock worker.

Convicted by DNA evidence is nothing new, but this is: David Hilder, 47, was the first person convicted of manslaughter, partly on DNA evidence left by his cat.

So forget human DNA database, here comes the brave new world of cat DNA database:

In the latest case in Britain, investigators tapped the same lab to identify the cat hair discovered around the dismembered torso of David Guy, 30, who was found hidden in a trash bag on a British beach in July 2012. Detectives matched the hair to a cat belonging to the man's friend, David Hilder, but because the genetic material was mitochondrial DNA — which can be shared among large number of animals — the strength of the match couldn't be known.

That's where the cat DNA database came in.

Wetton — who had previously helped to set up a similar database for dogs — worked with doctoral student Barbara Ottolini to create a repository of cat DNA for the Hilder case. They gathered samples of mitochondrial DNA from 152 felines across England over a six-week period.

"Only three of the samples obtained matched the hairs from the crime scene," Wetton said, suggesting that while the match wasn't perfect, it was still a pretty good indication the hairs on the torso came from Hilder's cat.

Read the full article over at SFGate.

Ever wanted to ditch it all for the simplicity of living in a tiny house, but don't know if you'd actually like it? Why not give it a try for a while and see for yourself?

Deb Delman and Kol Peterson not only built Accessory Dwelling Units (or ADUs, also known as carriage house, cottage or granny flat), they also run an AirBNB business renting them out. You can rent one for the night (and what a cozy night it'll be!)

Check out the pics:

Find out more over at Tiny House Hotel official website - Thanks Tiffany!

Woohoo, it's Friday and we're feelin' like sharin'! Check out the NeatoShop's new lines of Funny T-shirts (we've got TONS of new stuff by indie artists) and who knows, you may even win your favorite tee (details below). Sci-fi mash ups? Funny one liners t-shirts? We've got them all!

Some of our favorite new designs:

Okay, here's how to win: Check out NeatoShop's New T-Shirts listings and let us know your favorite T-shirt AND who designed it (props to the artists, people!).

Write your selection in the comment below. ONE shirt and artist per comment, though you can enter as many as you'd like You can enter 3 choices. We'll pick 4 winners at random soon, so hurry!

Note: Are you a professional illustrator or T-shirt designer? Let's chat! Sell your designs on the NeatoShop, earn generous royalties, and get featured in front of tons of potential new fans on Neatorama!

Update 8/21/13: Contest is closed - thank you for playing, everyone! Here are the winners

We're rooting for Japanese dance group/band World Order to achieve world domination so we can walk on the street just like 'em! The band's unique synchronized dance moves, done with their signature military precision, are just fascinating to watch.

Here's the band's new Imperialism music video, shot in Washington, D.C.:

"Machine Civilization" music video, the band's biggest hit (so far):

Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez, before (L) and after (R) its "improvement"

There's many path of to artistic fame, but Cecilia Gimenez's is unique: back in 2012, the amateur octagenarian artist decided to help "restore" a deteriorated fresco called Ecce Homo at her local church, painted over 100-years ago by Spanish painter Elias Garcia Martinez.

The end result of Gimenez' "restoration," described as a "crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic," was widely mocked on the Internet. The restored version has been called "Ecce Mono" (or Behold the Monkey, a pun on its original name) and "Potato Jesus."

The ridicule was so bad that the priest of the church had considered covering up the painting. But thank goodness that didn't happen, because the botched painting turned out to be quite a boon to the local town of Borja, Spain. Since gaining worldwide attention, the infamous fresco has raised more than 50,000 euros (US$66,660) for a local charity and drawn more than 40,000 visitors.

And things are definitely looking up for Gimenez: the 80-year-old artist has sold her art on eBay for thousands of dollars. She now has her own art exhibit, where two dozens of her other works are on show. No word, however, on whether she'll attempt another restoration anytime soon.

After years of denial, the CIA finally 'fessed up: Area 51 really does exist! The mysterious airbase in Nevada was revealed in recently declassified documents:

According to these reports, which include a map of the base's location in Nevada, Area 51 was merely a testing site for the government's U-2 and OXCART aerial surveillance programs. The U-2 program conducted surveillance around the world, including over the Soviet Union during the Cold War. [...]

The map and other documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Jeffrey T. Richelson, a senior fellow at the National Security Archives, in 2005.

Richelson submitted the request as part of his continuing study of aerial surveillance programs and told CNN that he was not given an explanation of why the new documents were less redacted than previous versions declassified by the agency.

They still, however, won't let us see the aliens on the base.

Laura Koran of CNN has the post. (Photo: Phil McDonald/Shutterstock)

Add this to the long list of the strangest things ever faked in China. A chinese zoo in People's Park of Luohe, Henan province, got into trouble recently when its supposed "African lion" started barking like a dog:

The beast was in fact a Tibetan mastiff – a large and long-haired breed of dog.

“The zoo is absolutely cheating us,” the [Beijing Youth Daily] quoted Liu, who was charged 15 yuan ($2.45) for the ticket, as saying. “They are trying to disguise the dogs as lions.”

Not so, the zoo defended itself:

The chief of the park’s animal department, Liu Suya, told the paper that while it does have a lion, it had been taken to a breeding facility and the dog – which belonged to an employee – had been temporarily housed in the zoo over safety concerns.

Link - Thanks Steve!

Update 8/15/13: Neatoramanaut Marcos pointed out the real photos of the fake animals from Beijing Youth site (fake lion photo updated above) - Thanks Marcos!

Fake golden jaguar:

Fake wolf:

Photo: Yasuhiro Takagi

Want to walk in the clouds? Now you can, thanks to Cloudscapes, a collaboration by Japanese studio Tetsuo Kondo Architects and environmental engineering firm Transsolar, located at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

The indoor cloud is created by pumpking three layers of air into the structure: cold dry air at the bottom, humid hot hair in the middle, and hot dry air on top. Visitors can then immerse themselves in the clouds that form in the middle layer.

Photo: Yasuhiro Takagi

"The temperature and humidity inside the container are controlled to keep the clouds at their desired height," The project stated, "The edges of the clouds are sharp yet soft, and always in motion. Their colour, density and brightness are constantly changing in tune with the weather and time of day."

Meet Kim Ki-hoon, an English teacher in South Korea. He's been teaching English for over 20 years in the country's private, after-school tutoring academies or hagwons. That's not unusual but what's unique about Mr. Kim is that not only is he respected as a teacher, he also makes a lot of money teaching.

How much is a lot of money, you ask? How about $4 million a year:

Mr. Kim works about 60 hours a week teaching English, although he spends only three of those hours giving lectures. His classes are recorded on video, and the Internet has turned them into commodities, available for purchase online at the rate of $4 an hour. He spends most of his week responding to students' online requests for help, developing lesson plans and writing accompanying textbooks and workbooks (some 200 to date).

"The harder I work, the more I make," he says matter of factly. "I like that." [...]

The bulk of Mr. Kim's earnings come from the 150,000 kids who watch his lectures online each year. (Most are high-school students looking to boost their scores on South Korea's version of the SAT.) He is a brand name, with all the overhead that such prominence in the market entails. He employs 30 people to help him manage his teaching empire and runs a publishing company to produce his books.

Amanda Ripley of The Wall Street Journal has the story (Photo: SeongJoon Cho for the Wall Street Journal)

Photo: Mark Gurney

Ain't he cute? Meet the olinguito, the first new species of carnivore to be identified in the Western hemisphere in 35 years. It's a small raccoon-like animal approximately 2 and a half feet long and weighs about two pounds. It has woolly orange-brown fur and a cute teddy bear-like face to boot.

The cute mammal was discovered by a team of scientists from the Smithsonian Institution in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. The search for the olingo was started when zoologist Kristofer Helgen uncovered bones and animal skins in the storage room of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.

"When I looked at the skulls I didn't recognize the anatomy," Helgen told BBC News, "It was different to any similar animal I'd seen, and right away I thought it could be a species new to science."

But it turns out that scientist shouldn't have had to look far. Turns out, the olinguito has been known to man all along: they've been displayed in museums and zoos for the past few decades. In fact, there's one living in the The Smithsonian-run National Zoo in Washington.

"It's been kind of hiding in plain sight for a long time," Helgen said. It was a case of mistaken identity with its closely related cousin the olingos.

Bear Hug by Matt Parsons

Need a hug? Matt Parsons would like to give you a grizzly one through this Bear Hug T-shirt. Check out Matt's official website and Facebook page, then visit his NeatoShop page for more awesome T-shirts: Link

View more designs by Matt Parsons | More Funny T-shirts

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Photographer Rion Sabean (Facebook page) spoofed the absurd poses of pin up calendar by substituting men as the models. I don't know about you, but Mr. April looks like the guy that changed my tire the other day!

View the complete series over at Rion's Flickr set Men-Ups!