Beginner’s Guide to Poker: some general tips on the game.
Magic Links
Jim Bumgardner the creator of Orville and Internet Lie Detector has just released two more devious computer magic effects, see the Oracle of Batboy and learn how to use him to do a card effect. Also purchase his Metascope Mindreading program which can be used to bring up an image a spectator is simply thinking of, download and try a demo, I think this could be even more devastating if the spectator just wrote his thought down and didn’t even tell you, and we know how to do that don’t we 
Invisible Illusions: New forum, includes discussions on Card and Coin Magic, flourishes, street magic and a place to upload bizzare magic and flourish videos.
Card Stacker: Bryan Berg’s website on building card constructions. Look at the gallery and learn about his new book. Also read about him in this Wired article. (links courtesy of ConjureNation).
Looking to improve your YoYo or Juggling skills, buy some equipment:
Infinite Illusions
AirTraffic
Extreme Spin
YoYo Play
Dave’s Skill Toys
And learn some tricks:
Yomania
Ken’s World on a String
Sector Y
TopSpinning
Learning to Juggle causes changes in brain: apparently if you master this skill it causes an expansion of the brain, and if you stop then it decreases. I’ll have to start juggling again on a regular basis I think 
According to the article they want to harness this knowledge for disease management!
DIY Templates for Magic and Mentalism: Thomas Henry’s CD that contains templates for producing pay envelopes, business card envelopes, index card envelopes etc. useful if you want to customise the use of your envelopes or make them up in different colours, Black Envelope anyone? Also the CD contains templates for a datebook useful for Chronologue style tricks, I actually have this template after Thomas gave it to EG members, and its good, I plan to use it to make a diary for Mike Close’s diary trick when I get chance. Also included is a template for a Card Case.
Mirkwood Design Templates: templates to make custom cards, envelopes and boxes.
Paper CD Case: similar to Tom Hull’s design you can use this website to generate a PDF file that you can fold into an origami CD case complete with track listings, graphics and mailing address.
Strong Magic Index: Uli Weigel has compiled an index for Darwin Ortiz’s book Strong Magic. You can see what names, book titles and tricks are referenced and what pages they appear on. A mammoth task that is very much appreciated.
Ed Marlo Database: Jimmy Molinari’s online searchable database of over 3851 of Marlo’s items that he had in print, you can search on effects, sleights, books and magazines, an awesome resource!
25OffMagic.com: read about this author’s frank comments on what he believes is the current ‘dreck’ and garbage being put out in the magic scene atm, its nice to see another side to the review process!
Balloon Molecules: build chemical molecules out of modelling balloons! The site shows basic balloon knots and techniques, and has a gallery of various molecular structures. Makes a change from a dog I suppose, just hope at my next kids show I don’t get asked for a DNA Helix
Banachek on Unscrewed: [28MB WMV] see Banachek perform metal bending and talk about magic on this TechTV show.
Tom Blue’s Old Magic Books: Tom is a specialist in old and rare magic books, see what he has for sale.
Doug Brewer: has just released a DVD called Get Bent, check this out along with his other products at his new website.
The Secret Art of Magic Website: a new magic book based on The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The book focuses on Street Magic (not the Blaine kind!) to quote the preface of the book this is a complete and applicable approach to how we manipulate human awareness, read the introduction on the website.
Punch and Judy on the web: The authentic British website linking Punch professors and enthusiasts everywhere. Read about the history behind Punch, where to buy figures, current shows and sign up for the message board. Also check out The Punch Page: Resources relating to the origins, history and activities of Punch, the world famous puppet. The Punch and Judy College of Professors and Prof. Glyn Edwards Punch and Judy Pitch.
Pentrix - Pen Spinning Revolution: the new and improved version of the old Pentix site. Still under development, but you can read some articles and view the videos. The Universal forum should be open in January of next year.
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 →
YoYoMadness: a post from metafilter talking about a Japanese YoYo Championship video, well worth the 13mb download to view. Also links in the thread to other videos and YoYo sites.
Mathematical Card Tricks: 7 maths based card effects, with input from Martin Gardner, Gordon Bean and Steve Beam.
Web Video for Magicians: Ian Kendall’s tutorial on encoding video clips for the web. Talks about Colour Depth, Encoding, Bit Rates and the differences between Real, Quicktime and Windows Media.
Tabman Tables: The Finest In Magic Tables and Professional Props. Michael Ammar used a Tabman table in his L&L videos. Tabman is currently remaking the Erdnase Train Table.
Luke Jermay: Luke’s new website, view a biography, products for sale, show details and register for his e-mail list.
The Underground Collective: Inspired magic for professional magicians. Jamie Badman and Colin Miller have relaunched their site. They are currently selling the Underground Change e-book, their new effect Heirloom and a computer program suitable for a certain mental application. Other effects to appear soon include Seance and Henry Sugar. Sign up for the mailing list to recieve updates and bonus material.
Towel Chicken: Thanks to my earlier request, Matt very kindly sent me this link on how to make a towel chicken… my life is complete Thanks Matt…
The Magic Circle Jerk: a weblog about magic and magicians, started after a deleted post at the MagicCafe! Some interesting views that might offend, personally I think it makes a refreshing read
H-Magic: a site made by Jonas from Sweden with some cool video clips of various sleights and moves.
Vintage Magic and Hypnotist Posters in the USA: Houdini, Kellar, Thurston, Alexander and more.
Japanese Hot Towel Origami: folding prepackaged hot towels into shapes! Finally some instructions on how to do a Towel Chicken, I’ve been searching for this for a while (don’t ask!) but if anyone knows an english link for clearer instructions I would be even happier…
