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).
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Just read the sad, sad news about Bro. John Hamman passing away, its quite strange because this lunch time I was reading Aaron Smith’s ‘Methodical’ and in particular studying his version of Bro. John’s ‘Signed Card’. Then I come back and read the news 
I am going to track down a copy of ‘The Secrets of Brother John Hamman’. This is another sad passing for the world of Magic, RIP Brother John.
The Magic Zone: In the Authors own words - This site was made for magician
James Randi Educational Foundation homepage: an educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific and the supernatural.
Mephisto the Master: FireEating and Manipulation. Including FAQs, Links, tips and some impressive photos.
SQL Tutorial: Need to brush up on your SQL? As I’m starting the journey into learning PHP I thought I might as well…
squiggle.gen.nz - comments system: Post to test the new comments system, please try it out and let me know what you think, also go back and comment on some older posts!
Ok I’ve finally gotten round to fixing viewing the site in 800600. It should no longer scroll horizontally, which I know is a big no-no! I still prefer 1024768 though 
But at least now you get to see the full right side of the site… so now I can concentrate on some PHP stuff, expect to see an experimental comments system here in the next few days!
Bridge Basics: I guess as a card magician, I have an interest in card games as well, I want to learn to play both Poker and Bridge, so this is an online guide to learning Bridge!
Ideavirus: An interesting full e-book about a marketing idea called IdeaVirus, although the sceptical amongst us may say that the very idea of releasing the e-book free of charge, is an interesting use of the authors concept!
freedom 2 surf: I have changed servers and am now hosting this blog at F2S. Basically because they give you free PHP with no banners etc. I want to learn PHP4 and just bought a huge book from Amazon by Wrox called ‘Beginning PHP4’ so we will see how that goes! Also now I have PHP you can expect a comments system soon, an Articles and Writings section, a new really good looking Guestbook, a links manager and a status list. But for now I just want to check that this is stable and all the code has changed as it should.
www.DavidAcer.com: David finally has his own website. What can I say about this guy, at the minute he is one of my top three favourite Magicians, just his style and comedy and timing are brilliant! I saw him at Blackpool this year along with Jay Sankey and it made the convention. You can order his magic from this site and even hear some audio and watch video clips and read about the comedic angle of this Canadian Genius!
Wednesday, November 29, 2000 →
Todd Lassen’s Coin Gaffs: Todd makes some of the best coins in magic, quite a slow loading page though with lots of pictures.
Andi Gladwin has asked me to post a short note. His excellent site Future-Of-Magic.Com has suffered a set back due to server errors, and for similar reasons he has lost his Trick&Treat subscribers database. Trick&Treat being Andi’s FREE monthly newsletter full of gossip, hot news and a brand new trick or idea every month. So if you were a subscriber or fancy becoming one, all you have to do is click the link above to e-mail Andi with a subject such as “T&T Subscription” and he will do the rest… Hurry up though as the next issue goes out at the start of December!
Standupcom Magazine: An online Magazine devoted to the British comedy scene with reviews, interviews and gossip. Of interest to Magicians is the really interesting interview with Jerry Sadowitz it lets you into a bit of his background etc. Check out Jerry’s new show Jerry A Tric on Channel5 on a Sunday Night! But not if you are easily offended…
FREDS MAGIC BOOKS: A new site for Fred Mitchell’s Magic Books and Videos.
The Modern Wizard’s Magic Page: Has some good photo’s and Uncle Gary’s reviews! He also makes some really good looking wooden props.
Weird Gene’s Home Page: Gene Poinc’s Homepage, full of weird and bizzare Magick routines.
Wednesday, November 22, 2000 →
Aerotech projects: They manafacture Illuminated Juggling Equipment. I saw ‘Feeding the Fish’ use them on this weeks Blue Peter their club juggling was out of this world!
Card Collection: UK Dealer in all sorts of Cards, any cards imaginable including specially designed packs.
HOW TO VOTE IN PALM BEACH FLORIDA: ROFL, A beginners guide as to how to vote correctly! I won’t even mention the farce that is the American election, but I thought this was amusing! What happened to using simple boxes for ****s sake! Why do you have to punch holes at all?! I guess it makes counting easier if its done by machine, all though you could just use an OMR.
Magic Tricks Page: This page contains lists of references to certain tricks, for instance if you were wanting to do a Sponge Ball routine or a Linking Rings routine, you could find pre-published routines.
Origami Underground: * WARNING * this page may offend some people, it contains Origami sculptures of an erotic nature!
A BIZARRE MAGICK BIBLIOGRAPHY: If you are interested in this area of Magic, check this extensive Bibliography by Joe Lantiere to see what you should have on your bookshelf.
World Magic Center: This is a site by Al Schneider, the guy who invented the Matrix. The purpose of this site is to provide high tech magic information to the world wide magic community. Al starts this off with an excellent paper entitled ‘The Theory of Magic’.
The Physics Instructor Who Walks on Fire: All about the ancient art of Firewalking, and some possible explanations as to how you can do this.
Easter Eggs at EggHeaven2000!: Check out the hidden easter-eggs, little hidden funny things in games, websites, movies etc. also another great Egg site is The Easter Egg Archive.
The Scooby Doo / X-Files Conspiracy Theory: I love Scooby Doo, I’m a big fan and apparently I do a fairly good impression of him as well 
Check this site out, it compares X-Files (another favourite of mine) to Scooby! (Link via usr/bin/girl)
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