Card Magic Miracles: NEW book by Paul Gordon (Published Spring/Summer 2001) As Paul could not continue (or start) publishing The Quidnunc due to ill-health he has decided to release his material in the form of a new book. You can pre-order, and take a look at the contents at this site.
Magic Links
Online card trick.: Instructions on how you can do an online card trick, good idea this as long as he doesn’t limit it to one go per week as he says he will. Might be some room for expansion on this, also to include the Prediction Register idea that appeared on Magictalk a while back, watch this space as they say!
Tommy Wonder: Tommy’s promotional website. If you haven’t read his two Books of Wonder you should! Also get his excellent lecture video from Mark Leveridge.
The World of Playing Cards: Also the home of the English Playing Card Society. A history of English Playing Cards, they have sections on Tarot Cards and Conjuring and Magic.
Cold Reading-How Some Could Know So Much About You: A number of interesting Cold-Reading essays.
Zander Magic HomePage: John Zander’s Online Magic store, includes two of his own creations, Copy Cards and Re-Print.
Imagitivity Productions: Good looking website, owned by Keith Runion who runs a website design company for magicians, also he releases his own material. (link courtesy of the AOA E-Group).
Derren Brown Mind Control: A website to accompany Derren’s first TV special that has just aired here in the UK. I’m the first to say it was an awesome special, more of this please! This website has lots of little FLASH tests you can take, and RealAudio videos you can watch. Also check out Derren’s homepage.
Magic and Miracles: Some good original card and coin moves, text descriptions accompanied by photos. Also includes some video reviews with contents of the videos.
Wednesday, December 27, 2000 →
David Kenney Magic: Some interesting original creations for sale. See a sample of his magic on the excellent Online-Visions magazine.
Merry Christmas to all readers and I hope that you and your family have a safe, wonderful and peaceful holiday season.
John Oakley: Home page of John Oakley, this guy produces some great lists of second hand magic, get on it if you aren’t already!
eGroups : ApocalypseMagazine: I have started a new eGroup to discuss the new bound Apocalypse 4-Volume set. It was set up as a ‘sister’ group to the ArtofAstonishment group that is used to discuss Paul Harris’s 3 Volume set of books. Please join if you have either of the 2 bound volumes of Apocalypse that have been released so far, or if you were an orignal subscriber, and wish to discuss the wealth of material.
Revenge Time: Amazing Jonathan’s New site, how to get revenge and play practical jokes on people!
Wednesday, December 20, 2000 →
NetRemote Launcher: A remote-control for your browser!, supposed to speed up your internet navigation, I like the option where you can open lots of pages at once, could be useful for all those pages you check regularly. Not sure how well, if at all it would work in Netscape though…
Wednesday, December 20, 2000 →
Amazon.co.uk: Dollar Bill Animals in Origami: The title speaks for itself, new Origami book from Dover, the heads-up is courtesy of Micheal Close through his Review Column in MAGIC Magazine. He mentions that some of the creatures are hard to make and suggests using normal paper first before attempting bills.
Wednesday, December 20, 2000 →
Terry’s Magic Pub: A Virtual Pub that has resident Magicians, the site is still under construction but they are promising the web’s first Magic Webcast Special, with some big names, so that should be something to watch out for.
Wednesday, December 20, 2000 →
Magic Tricks from the Magic Mall: In the sites own words: We represent some of the finest
Wednesday, December 20, 2000 →
FreeArcade.com: Good site to waste some time over Christmas 
Lots of free Java Games that you can play online.
Tannen’s Magic Shop Online!: New site layout, vast improvement on the old one, I’d love to visit this shop someday!
MagicPlans.com (Look out Bad Magic): Check out the Photos, they also have an Anger Board for anyone to vent their frustration, should anyone in magic have ripped you off! Lastly they have a ‘Horror Stories’ section, for tales of the show from hell. (Link Courtesy of the Kevin James Message Board).
Jonathan Matthews Exotic Leather Creations: Makes a number of good looking magical wallets. (link courtesy of Kevin James Message board).
Kevin James’ Imagination Unlimited: Kevin James is an excellent Magician with a great brain that comes up with some weird and wacky effects. Visit his site, where you can browse his catalogue and check out his excellent new message board.
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 →
Resignation as an Adult: Someone printed this and stuck it next to our photocopier at work, I like it, it pretty much sums up how people feel around here sometimes! I quite like being an adult though, much prefer it to childhood, (or what I can remember of it), but sometimes, just sometimes I could hand in my notice…
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 →
Welcome to Kem Plastic Playing Cards: Cellulose acetate playing cards which are 100% plastic. Which according to the site means they are long lasting, odorless and washable, resist scuffing and breaking, are clean and crisp, are fresh and flexible, are the least expensive on a per-play basis. Hmm wonder how they handle for Magic though?
Wednesday, December 13, 2000 →
Linux Journal: More Linux reading for me Need to get hold of a copy of the newest LinuxFormat magazine to try and upgrade to Mandrake 7.2… that should be fun!
Linux-Mandrake: Finally made the hopefully permanent switch to Linux, still gotta find some utils to replace my Windoze ones, but so far so good, I think its going to be a bit of a learning curve though from being led by the hand with Windies to having to learn Linux! So expect a few blogs along the way! Currently reading Linux Documentation Project and Linux Format Magazine.
Peter Duffie’s Alternative Magic: Peter Duffie’s New Magic Site, has lots of free card tricks, watch out for his Select Secrets page which will eventually feature tricks, ideas and partial concepts from Peter and others also manuscripts that you can download free of charge.
Big THANKS to TaraStar for helping me get my comments working on the Archive pages as well as the main page. Also can anyone reading please sign the GuestBook so that I know your out there! Its an excellent PHP guestbook by the guy over at 4CM. He also has some other good PHP scripts and tutorials that are worth a look. Next on my to-do is a bit of a cosmetic change to the site, probably pre-load the graphics (that’ll please you Peter!) and make a PHP include-template so I only have to change one file when I change the layout. Then watch out for an Article Manager, which means I will be able to do an In My Mailbox feature and also write any longer thoughts in there for you to comment on. Then lastly I will be implementing a FFA links page, and some Status Text… phew!
TrickMaster Site: Blatant rip-off site, at least I suppose he password protected it! But once inside there are quite a few secrets exposed, why do people feel the need to do this, probably some little kid who has just learnt HTML and has probably only just started in Magic and trawls alt.magic.secrets looking for stuff. When will they learn that this only harms magic, and gives it a bad name. Personally I think the web is a GREAT tool for Magic, as we can discuss the art with Magicians from all over the world almost instantly, but this power has got to be respected… I guess you are always going to get the people that abuse this though. The only real way that you could put an end to this is for the dealers to stop selling Magic to every man and his dog. At present you don’t need any form of identification to buy Magic over the Web, what we need is some recognised code that you are a practicing Magician. This will never happen however as most of the dealers are only interested in selling to the Hobby Magician who always wants the latest stuff (me included some times!) and has the money but maybe not the Magical Knowledge or Respect for the secret and power that they are buying into. Anyway thats my rant over, I only Blogged this site so I could have a good rant, and to show you how appalling it is! (link courtesy of Ben Harris).