Trivia fact for Friday, Jan. 1: Approximately how many bubbles are there in the average bottle of bubbly, according to champagne maker Moët and Chandon? 250 million.

Trivia fact for Saturday, Jan. 2: What part of the human anatomy has more sweat glands than any other? The sole of the foot. Each foot has about 3000 sweat glands per square inch, for a total of approximately 250,000. The palms of our hands also have about 3000 sweat glands per square inch, but cover a smaller surface area.

Trivia fact for Sunday, Jan. 3: What did basketball great Michael Jordan always wear under his Chicago Bulls uniform for good luck? His basketball uniform shorts from the University of North Carolina. To cover his college shorts, Jordan started wearing longer, baggier Bulls shorts - inadvertently launching a basketball fashion trend.

Trivia fact for Monday, Jan. 4: In the world of whales and dolphins, what is spyhopping? Rising vertically out of the water to check the surroundings.

Trivia fact for Tuesday, Jan. 5: What state holds an annual three-day mosquito festival? Texas, in the town of Clute. The Great Texas Mosquito Festival is held on the last Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of July. The 30th annual festival will be held this year.

Trivia fact for Wednesday, Jan. 6: What name was originally proposed for the TV show that gained fame as Judge Judy? Hot Bench. Producer Larry Lyttle proposed the name, but was overruled by Judge Judy Sheindlin. The show first aired in September 1996.

Trivia fact for Thursday, Jan. 7: Which continent is the flattest? Australia. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the reason is "its position near the centre of a tectonic plate, where there are no volcanic or other geologic forces of the type that raise the topography of other continents."

Originally called "How Madara Stole Itachi... Or Something", for naruto_santa.

Preview:

Full view @ DA :)

If you have a spare calendar for this year, don't throw it away. If you save it until 2021 the days of the week will match up with the months etc again and it will finally be able to realise its calendrical potential. Similarly, if you have an unused calendar for 2009, you'll be able to utilise it in 2015. A 2005 calendar will be useable next year. A 2008 calendar will have to wait until 2038 until it lines up correctly however. (In case you wondered - 2006 = 2017, 2007 = 2018)

Source: here and here.

Title: Drunken Bonus
Rating: NC17
Pairing: SasuNaru
Summary: Ever wonder what happens when Sasuke gets drunk? Nothing good.
Author's Notes: The winner of the poll on my profile.

Linked to my personal journal, since editing it would lead to me deleting the entire thing.

http://kodak-85.livejournal.com/27582.html#cutid1

Trying out a new pattern, I decided to make a little baby Naruto to see how it would turn out. What do you guys think? (Any other anime characters/Naruto characters I should make?)

( Baby Naruto )

Trying out a new pattern, I decided to make a little baby Naruto to see how it would turn out. What do you guys think? Any other Naruto babies (or other anime characters) you think I should make?

( Baby Naruto )

Title: Apology
Genre(s): General
Character(s): Gaara, Unnamed Female
Rating: T (for some language and small mentions of violence)
Warnings: Written in the second person?
Word Count: 804
Summary: Gaara finally receives a long overdue apology. Set after chapter 280.
A/N: When I was writing this, I was picturing that kid Gaara almost killed on the playground. Hence, the references. I'm not sure about the kid's sex, but it looked like a girl to me.
@ ff.net

Title: Venti
Genre(s): General, Family and a hint of Angst.
Character(s): Temari, with mentions of Kankuro and Gaara
Rating: K
Warnings: None, unless you hate character studies
Word Count: 563
Summary: Temari loved her element, she just didn't think it suited her.
@ ff.net

x-posted @ naruto_gen

Title: Linear
Genre: Angst
Rating: T (for language)
Summary: Life for an ordinary person moves in a straight line: birth to death, Start to Stop. Uchiha Sasuke is not ordinary.

ff.net 

LJ

Evening~ I haven't written much lately, but I thought I'd share the two most recent installments in the chinpo chronicles, in which Sai, Naruto and Sasuke travel the world..

#1:Eastern Europe

Warnings: Implied sexual events.
Pairing: SasuNaruSai
Genre: Humor/yaoi
Words: 452
Disclaimer: I own nothing. Sai is gay. Kishi is ghei. And we love penislulz.

Sasuke will most likely come to wish that what happened in Eastern Europe will stay in Eastern Europe

#2: Gingerbread
Warnings: bad humor, "bad words".
Rating:If 'penis' is a bad word, then PG?
Disclaimer: Don't own. No profit.
Words: 666

Who knew that baking could be so much fun?!

xposted to chinpo_daily

So, a million years late in putting it up, but this is what I did over the holidays.

Title: We've Both Got Better Things To Do
Warnings: Cliché emo lyrics for a title. I'm sorry. Crack. Angst. Language. The usual. Very, uh, loosely ordered. Sort of chronologically? Spoilers for manga to 473.
Genre: Angst/Romance, with just enough Crack to prove it's mine.
Rating: PG.
Notes: The first one can stand alone and was very nearly posted as an individual piece, because I love it that much. The rest... probably could, too. Also, for those who don't get the Tenten thing--Naruto's birthday is October 10, that is, 10/10. I dunno if it's fanon or canon that Kushina was the daughter of the daimyo of, uh, whatever country Whirlpool was in, but I'm rolling with that.
Summary: Your name is on everything you do, acting like you've got something to prove. (You already have.) Formatted like Blue Like Nevermind.

And, as bonus points, a drabble and two ficlets in this multi-fandom post, and I also did a DVD commentary of How Sasuke And Naruto Became Friends. (It's composed of about as much crack as can be expected.)

Cookie-like hard wafers have existed for as long as baking is documented, in part because they deal with travel very well, but they were usually not sweet enough to be considered cookies, by modern standards.

Cookies appear to have their origins in 7th century AD Persia, shortly after the use of sugar became relatively common in the region. They spread to Europe through the Muslim conquest of Spain. By the 14th century, they were common in all levels of society, throughout Europe, from royal cuisine to street vendors.

With global travel becoming widespread at that time, cookies made a natural travel companion, a modernized equivalent of the travel cakes used throughout history. One of the most popular early cookies, which traveled especially well and became known on every continent by similar names, was the jumble, a relatively hard cookie made largely from nuts, sweetener, and water.

Cookies came to America in the early English settlement (the 1600s), although the name "koekje" arrived with the Dutch. This became Anglicized to "cookie" or cooky. Among the popular early American cookies were the macaroon, gingerbread cookies, and of course jumbles of various types.

The most common modern cookie, given its style by the creaming of butter and sugar, was not common until the 18th century.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie

On January 5th, 1592, Khurram Jahan was born. He would assume the Mughal throne at age 35, fall deeply in love with the woman he married, and mourn her passing as no other ruler did (or could): by commissioning the stunning mausoleum that is known as the Taj Mahal.

Title: Best Laid Schemes
Author: alcyonev
Rating: R
Summary: Naruto has a brilliant idea for quick money. Unfortunately for him and his on-off boyfriend, even the best laid schemes tend to go awry. AU

Chapter 6

Title: Best Laid Schemes
Author: alcyonev
Rating: R
Summary: Naruto has a brilliant idea for quick money. Unfortunately for him and his on-off boyfriend, even the best laid schemes tend to go awry. AU

Chapter 6

1943: George Washington Carver dies, leaving a legacy of a revived and diversified Southern agriculture and hundreds of new and improved food products. Think of him whenever you’re enjoying peanut butter.

 

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Drawn for Ronsmyhero.

Hello everyone...I've just joined this community and am very excited to be a part of it. I'm so glad I was able to find people with similar interests! I hope it's alright for me to post so soon after joining...

A few days ago, I started a fanfiction for this pairing. It's my first fanfiction in this category, so please tell me what you think :)

Title: Paper Wings
Pairings: Sasuke/Naruto
Author: Faiine4 (Known as Kyndred)
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Angst, Action/Adventure
Warning: Yaoi Pairings, Sexual Themes, Graphic Violence, Language
Wordcount: 5,156
Summary: To stop his rampage, Sharingan sealed away his memories. To save his life, the Hokage locked him away from prying eyes. Now, the true battle begins - the battle to save Naruto's soul.

FF.net Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5636324/1/Paper_Wings

TONFA Link: http://narutofic.org/viewstory.php?sid=9859&chapter=1 (in the process of posting the second chapter to this website)

Please review if you've got an extra minute. I would love to know how I'm doing :)