Jerry Sadowitz: Talking through his hat: a recent article in the Independent on Jerry’s latest tour of Scotland.

Telegraph - Did you see the Gorilla: article featuring Richard Wiseman and Simon Singh talking about change blindness, you can see some example footage on Singh’s website. Richard Wiseman and Peter Lamont ran an interesting article in the November 2003 issue of MAGIC based on this theory, and even offered a version of the colour changing deck which would be interesting to see if it actually worked!

Trading Places: Walking illusion costumes, e.g. a man in a cage being carried by a gorilla! Or a man in a top hat being carried by a giant rabbit See also some rider costumes, e.g. man on the back of an ostrich.

Sleight of Hand Magic Forum: discuss general magic, flourishes, close-up, illusions and mentalism.

FISM 2006 Forum: new message forum for FISM 2006 in Sweden. Discuss acts you would like to see, the competitions, dealers and places to visit in Sweden.

Paper Models of Polyhedra: Polyhedra are beautiful 3-D geometrical figures, find over eighty paper models on this site to enable you to make your own.

CubeFreak: Macky’s site for speedcubers, blindfold-cubers, and cube-addicts… see videos of this guy solving a Rubiks Cube in World Record time, blindfolded, one-handed, whilst riding a unicycle!

MathWorld - Riffle Shuffle: short article on the mathematics of a Faro Shuffle.

KIDabra Discussion Forum: stemming from the conference of Family and Kidshow performers comes this extensive message forum covering every topic to do with philosophy, venues, routining, technical and business aspects, reviews and dealers.

The Voice - Britain’s Best Black Newspaper - The Magic Touch: Great article on Michael Vincent.

World’s Longest Magic Show: Tim Ellis and Sue Ann Webster organised a group of Melbourne Magicians to set out and break the world record for the longest non-stop magic show in history. The

Lots of Papercraft links:

Funky Moped
Robo-t
Robot Papercrafts
Auto KO magazine
Trouts and Seasons of the Mountain Village
Life is Art child calendar
Birds
Winking Cat
Popup Cards
Papercraft Corner

Guide to Shooting Rubber Bands: Not quite a magic link, but maybe of some interest. Learn the techniques and rules for rubberband warfare, and the best ways to deliver the shots, including the pistol, sawn-off shotgun and crossbow methods. Also a guide to the physics behind the shooting, and the best way to defend yourself, and disarm others.

Glenn Bishop: has a new DVD out entitled Tested Card-Works For Card-Shark Magicians. See a clip of his Bishop Cuts the Aces effect, also on the site is video of him performing on TV shows, and as a special treat four rare clips, one of Charlie Miller performing card effects, Jack Pyle performing a Bridge Deal, and clips of Buddy Farnan and Billy Bishop.

Taped and Passed: see Brian Huang’s new Card Through Window effect, where the whole card plus the corner can visually penetrate the window.

Matt Field’s TSD 5 Photos: Matt wrote and photographed The Second Deal convention in Jacksonville Florida that I attended in March, it was going to be in Genii but it looks like it got bumped, so check out the photos and a write up at The Genii Forum.

NeoMagic: grab some original magic wallpaper for your computer, or watch some card videos including the Hit Pass, the Overhand Lift Shuffle and the Push in Control.

Luke Dancy: Luke’s new site, check out his new DVD Magic for the Eyes and his trick Misprint. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing some of this in person, and Luke fries both magicians and lay people, his magic is strong, visual and original.

MSN Cardmagic Group: bi-lingual group to discuss card magic.

Origami Kaiju: Plans to make origami monsters, including Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra and Baragon amongst others.