Magic Impact Publications: Lots of tricks to download and learn, very colorful site with photos and graphics.

Devilstick Trick Database: A database of tricks with a devilstick, this is the english section of the site, although if you can read German then look around the rest of the site!

IJDb - The Internet Juggling Database: A great online juggling resource, again lots of video clips, links, articles, faq’s and even a gateway to read rec.juggling online!

PAssed imPErfect: The homepage for a juggling club based in north london, has some good video clips on for any of us trying to learn things like mills mess!

K’s_ORIGAMI: Features an Animated Studio of models, models by other designers, a links page and a library.

Ronald Koh’s Origami Page: Features lots of models of Dinosaurs, Reptiles, Birds and Animals.

Marc Kirschenbaum’s Origami Page: Marc has published an Origami book called ‘Paper in Harmony’ which is a collection of origami instrumentalists, also on his page he has some simple, intermediate and complex models.

Origami stuff: Make a dragon out of a candy wrapper, also some pictures of other models, X-Wing Fighter Engines and a pinwheel flower.

Peter Duffie Video Clips: You can see some video clips of Peter doing various moves.

Magic Audio Archive: Listen to the masters of magic, recordings of Dunninger, Blackstone, Houdini etc.

Happy Birthday: The magician.org.uk weblog is officially one year old today, which also means its my 24th Birthday (man I feel old!)… You can go back and read 12 months worth of posts in the archives. In this time we have changed from the free server at F2S over to a paid server at Xcalibre. Hopefully this has meant more reliability, stability and peace of mind. We have also changed design over to a more conservative one, where content is king.

Which brings me to the next point on the agenda, expect a couple of suprises over the coming weeks/months, hopefully another new design will be on the horizon, nothing earth shattering, it will stick to the minimalist look but will hopefully give me a chance to develop my CSS skills a little more. One of the reasons for this blog is a place for me to test my PHP and other related webskills. The other being the obvious one of a place to store all the sites that I run across in my daily use of the Internet. The next big thing for the blog after the redesign may happen in a few weeks or so, Blogger has been blooming marvellous over the past year, it has been and remains a great way to instantly publish to a website. But I wanted a PHP challenge and Peter persuaded me to help/hinder? him in writing a new CMS, but I can’t say too much at the moment.

Hopefully though it will allow me to expand the blog to talk more about other things that happen in my life besides Magic related stuff (wow won’t that be thrilling reading!) as I know I really don’t say a lot in the blog besides linking to sites, but that has been a semi-concious decision up to now. Also I hope to bring more news/technology related links into it as technology does play a large part in my life. Lastly I hope to make it easier for other people to contribute to the blog if they so wish, and I may see if I can recruit a few people to do just that, who knows!

I would really like to thank all the readers who have graced these pages over the last year, I think it is fair to say I don’t really know my readership at all, if I have any? I can see from the referer stats that we get a lot of search engine referrals, but I don’t know if I have any regular (daily/weekly/monthly?) readers… if you are out there and you do read this blog on any kind of basis do me a favour and sign the GuestBook (which btw is about to be updated to the new version) or comment on this post by using the comments link below. Tell me what you like/dislike about the blog, and what you want to see more of… you can also contribute as well, if you have a link to a magic/juggling/origami (or anything on those lines) related site that I haven’t covered then let me know, use the contact link. Not that I mind if I have any kind of readership, the purpose of the blog was always a personal one to keep track of sites and to practice web skills, but it is nice to know that occasionally people might make use of it.

Anyway I am off for some sleep, as I am getting old now I will try and make this a special day for the blog by blogging as much as I can.

ImagE Convention: Mark Leveridge Magic will be holding a new style of magic day in January of next year, check his website for all the details.

Magical Mike: Magic with emotion. Contains some video and photos, but really of interest is Magic Mikes Radio, which is a shoutcast broadcast featuring MOR Oldies and comedy.

Interview with Mac King on Las Vegas Internet Television: I blogged Mack Kings website a few days ago, but go here and watch the streaming video interview, and then sit back and enjoy the 10 minute clip of Mac’s show… sheer comedy genius!

At Ronjo Magic Shop online! 7000 magic tricks, Illusions, card tricks and books!: Ronjo magic shop, make excellent close-up mat’s.

answers to technical interview questions: an interesting page full of logic type puzzles, link was via Joel on Software. If you want a magical reference it contains the Card Trick without the trick. I wonder if this is the solution to Pick Five Cards that I posted back in March, and also the new palm program from sharperminds About Face an online version of which can be found here Online About Face. Unfortunately I am not that mathematically minded but I will try and work it out, if anyone would like to use the comments link for this post and let me know?

The Mac King Page!: Homepage for Mac King who is currently resident at the Harrah Hotel in Las Vegas. You can purchase his lecture notes from his page, or learn how to make your head vanish, or just look at some photos of his show.

The Secret Art Journal: An online journal of magic wisdom. Features articles by Jeff McBride, David Parr and Eugene Burger amongs others, well worth a read.

Magic Manuscript: Tannen’s Magic have started to re-print articles online, from their magazine Magic Manuscript. On a personal note I do have a couple of hard copies of the magazine, and most notably this was my first introduction to the magic of Paul Harris, I made up his ‘Time Machine’ trick which btw is an excellent routine (re-printed in the AoA) and was instantly converted into a life-long fan!

Genii Forum: Genii Magazine have opened a new message forum where you can discuss the magazine with the editors and readers.