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The world's best paper airplane?

Although the old trapezoidal design has long claimed the title of world's best paper airplane, which is decided in ways including flight time, reach, and lift, a new model is challenging that title.

This new design, shown at the bottom of the blog, is no exception to the tradition of not naming paper airplane models. As you can see, the model airplane is very realistic, and many surfaces such as the flaps and tail tips are actually meant to be moved to customize for flight objectives.

Many users of the airplane say that it actually generates lift to some extent, so while official airplane trials are to be held only on windless days, this would be wonderful to fly on a day with a light breeze. In addition, this type of airplane makes almost perfect landings.

This is a very graceful airplane, and while it may e complicated to make, the time taken is well worth it. The self-claimed inventor site of this model is www.zurqui.co.cr, which has instructions for creating the airplane.

Fanscape

Many games, but primarily those within the Halo universe that are on PC, support the creation of custom maps and tags for the video game. Focusing on Halo PC Custom Edition, the most widely modified game, the tools used for creation of complex polygons and shapes are actually quite easy to use. Many people contribute their designs for buildings, vehicles, or weapons within the video game.

This is convenient for amateur map designers, who may not have the time needed to create their own custom models for every facet of the game. They can simply download it off the Internet and position it within the game. There are thousands upon thousands of maps and designs out there, assuring that the game will never get boring. The community is very helpful and welcoming, and there is always a niche for some designing to be done.

Many tools have also been created, both official, such as HEK, and unofficial, such as HHT. With this network of tools, designs, and designers, many games will live on much longer than those of the past.

Paper hat sale! Only $500,000,000!

Party Hats were one of things given out by the in-game Santa in the early years of Runescape for Christmas. Few realized their impending value. After all, they were little colored paper hats. Shopkeepers only accepted them for 1 GP (equivalent to about one US Dollar in buying power) in exchange, and they were totally useless. As the way the world works, though, after Santa stopped giving them out and Christmas time was long past, they became a very rare item. They could no longer be created, in any means at all, and as people practiced alchemy upon them, the irreversible magic spells that turn things into gold pieces permanently, their numbers began dwindling, and people realized their value. Their prices for trade among the players of runescape rapidly climbed, from free, into the 2 digit numbers, then into the 3 digits, 4 digits, and so on.

Everyone sold them for a little ore than they bought them for, and the inflation of their prices is evident in todays market. Party hats today are worth anywhere from 120 million GP up into the 500 millions, depending on their color. The Christmas cracker that the party hast can come from is valued around 700 or 800 million GP, but on some days it goes over the billion GP mark. Certain colors, collected by players, are less rare, and are valued around the tens of millions per hat. Other colors, whether accidentally, or driven high on purpose due to collectors alchemy, are far more rare.

Many of the richest people in runescape have the majority of their assets in party hats. The richest person in runescape, Xxx Neo Xxx7, has several hundred party hats, the most of anyone in runescape, and the most recent Runehq "Runeforbes" report values his assets somewhere around 50 or 60 billion GP in liquid cash, and and some 120 billion GP including party hats and other rarities. He is the richest person in runescape by quite a bit, in fact, and the party hat market is at his whim. If he alchemizes any one of his hats, the GP price per party hat permanently jumps over a hundred thousand GP even for the most common colors. If he releases any party hats from his private stores into the market, the price drops by quite a bit.

These party hats have been a fascinating study into the market, and social stupidity. The party hats are useless, yet they are the highest valued items in runescape by far and far away. Read more statistics about party hats at the links sorted by color. The prices of the party hats are listed under the  "street price"

The Christmas cracker they come from

Blue Party Hats

Red Party Hats

White Party Hats

Green Party Hats

Purple Party Hats

Yellow Party Hats

Wow, what an amazing, dynamic economy. This has been a great insight into the world of runescape.

How to hurt yourself

Did you really think there was no way to buy radioactive materials off the internet? Well you were wrong. There are some amazing things on this website; don't let the relatively low-budget appearance fool you. They sell supermagnets and thermite and magnesium shreds and uranium and trinitium and heavy water and x-ray tubes...and the list goes on. You have to visit unitednuclear.com. The radioactivity levels in your house will never be the same again.