Magic Tricks, Card Tricks: News For Magicians, Magic Entertainers & Performers.: Magic Web Channel a new magic portal.

Magic History: A speciality showbusiness histor website linking magical entertainment with specialist acts.

hypergene | amazoning the news: Storytelling via the web.

Juggleart: A juggling shop in Melbourne Australia, has some good feature articles, a nice list of equipment, and some excellent circus related links. (link via This Circus Life.)

|/ this circus life|/: Adventures of a circus grrrrl!

Magic Shogun: Articles, tricks, tips and a message board, not a bad little site.

GADFLY MAGAZINE: A Journal for Card Magicians, coming in 10 days.

Hath’s….Magic Card Kingdom: The Card Kingdom is a site where you can find many easy, intermediate, and sometimes advanced card sleights. The site will be updated eventually with pictorial accompaniment to explainations, as well as links that might be of use.

It is with regret that we learned of the sudden death of JEFFERY ATKINS on the afternoon of Monday, 19th March 2001.

Jeff was the Honorary Secretary of the International Brotherhood of
Magicians, British Ring Number 25 ; a Past International President of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and an Honoray Member of many Magical Societies.

Pick Five Cards, Any Five Cards: An online five card trick, try to figure out how its done, I’m working on it!

Magic-Net! - Learn Free Magic Tricks, with Interactive Magic and a Magic Shop!!!

Jim Callahan: Self proclaimed Master Magician and Paranormalist. Check out his Edge Exhibit and the Blind Quest.

WebReview.com: March 16, 2001: The Myth of 800x600: Interesting article about designing websites for 800x600 screen resolutions, James Kalback puts forward the interesting and enlightening view that this is probably the wrong statistic to use. And just when I had optimised the Beverley College site for 800x600! Needless to say this blog works quite well in 800x600 and even with an IE channel bar open.

The FreeCert Project : is still in its infancy, but is basically setup to look at the existing monopoly that Verisign have on SSL Certification and hopefully in the end provide low cost or free certificates to people.

Riders - How you can get what you need!: Discover how to get that list of show requests recognised.

efdtt.c: This little C program beats the 7 Line PERL script posted earlier for size. It allows realtime decryption of CSS DVD encryption, and apparently it will do it better than the PERL script. How the MPAA are going to supress this I don’t know. Maybe its time to admit defeat, and open up the standards and allow it to take off…but I won’t hold my breath!

the 2001 5k competition: Brilliant idea, produce a website in only 5k… look at the 2000 winners, very creative!

A List Apart: Web Designer and Proud of It! An interesting article about what sets apart the 16yr old kid with a homepage, and the professional webdesigner… also spot the magic reference

Descramble That DVD in 7 Lines: A Perl script designed to break DVD protection, writen in just 7 lines, it doesn’t include the title key so hopefully this means it doesn’t violate the DMCA. Also check out David Touretzky’s Gallery of DVD descramblers.

Ian Rowland: Ian’s new site, incorporates the latest news on the long awaited re-print of his ‘Full Facts’ books. Also check out the WOW Cards, these are awesome pieces of artwork! Also he has some funny anecdotes in the Vault.