MAGIC! - The Global Magicians Network - Messages From Beyond The Web: This used to be an old BBS, you can still read most of the messages that were posted there, that have been archived for all time 
I miss FIDO!
Virtual Deck: The most comprehensive card calculating program I have ever seen, does everything you can do with a normal deck, and you can analyze the results.
hmmmm: An Abridged essay by Aaron Smith on Mesmerizing an Audience. Also from this page you can get a special time-limited offer to buy his new book Methodical for only $5.
The Magic Hat!: Despite having a pretty poor site design (what is with those animated gifs?) this site actually contains some good content, particularly the articles and bits on the conferences. He also wants to take on any content from magical sites that might be closing down, or messages from magic boards that may be lost in cyberspace.
Future Of Magic: Andi’s site has just got an update, with the start of a very promising column from Ryan Pilling, and the start of some streaming video as well. Give him your support by joining in the forums, next update promised on Nov 15th. Also if you haven’t done so already sign up for Andi’s Monthly Newsletter Trick and Treat Issue 4 has just come out and it contains a really good plot line for Twisting the Aces.
Quarks and Quirks by Ben Harris: Ben has released some pre-publication information about the book. Looks very intriguing, I am going to get my pre-publication order in. I was discussing effects like this last night with someone at our club, the difference between Card Tricks (ie. counting, spelling) and Tricks with Cards, ie. Card Warp, Card Linking etc. The stuff in Q&Q is the very essence of Tricks with Cards, and the kind of thing that 21st Century Magic should be about, I’m looking forward to this!
PayPal: WOOHOO! PayPal is now INTERNATIONAL… that means you can now use it in 25 different countries for payment by CreditCard over websites, including of course here in the UK… we love you PayPal! Also it means that anybody can accept CreditCard payments without having the expense of setting up CreditCard transaction accounts etc.
Eugene Burger: Read Eugene’s Genii column at his site, see him perform ‘Thought Sender’ and read a bit about the man behind the beard. Also if like me you enjoy reading what he has to say, you should check out his new book Mastering the Art of Magic.
Magic For All Magicians at the Connoisseur Conjuring Home Page: This is an excellent Scottish Magic Page, run by Richard James. The Magician only section has just been updated to include a new Roy Walton card trick!
Deceptions Unlimited: Home of VOICES the free online magazine dedicated to Bizzare Magick, they also have a ‘Haunted Magick Sampler’ available for $8.00 which contains some samples from the up-and-coming book of the same name.
Show-Timer.net - Assisting Magical Performance: They sell whats called a ‘Close-Up Showtimer’ which is basically a nice looking close-up case. Also they have a ‘Best Magical Performance Tip Challenge’ running atm, send in your best tip before Nov 17th.
Topica Email List Smoke&Mirrors: Join this excellent Email list, has many big name contributors from all over the world.
In this weeks edition of the Radio Times there is an article on Magical websites, probably following the fact that David Blaine is over here in the UK to promote the release of his specials on video. Basically they gave out a load of magical sites, where you could go and get tricks etc. The problem is some of these sites are actually GOOD! Like the Coin Purse for example, gives out really good coin tricks, the problem then? These sites are not password protected! If you are going to give out magical secrets on the web, at least protect them with some sort of magicians-only quiz, or even better make it closed access where you have to contact the website owner for access. Anyway enough of my moaning, I will blog the links that appeared in the RT here for you to look at:
David Blaine Link
Emazdad the Magician (poster to UKMagic)
Magic Room Dealers
Buy some Magic Sets
Magictricks UK Online Magic store
International Conservatory of Magic
Magicland Beginners Section
http://www.spiderlink.net/users/ralcocer/basement/imc.html
Online Encyclopedia of Magic
Magic Interactive
Coin Purse
Card Trick Central
Some Clever Psychic Stunts
The done-to-death Online Princess Card Trick
Sonata E-Book: Joe Pecore has written a Magic E-Book full of great ideas, including a brilliant assembly with a good storyline to match, a version of twisting the aces combined with Paul Harris’ Bizzare Twist, Cups and Balls with Playdoh, and a good Coins Across routine, and those are only the ones I have played with! How much is this going to cost? Well thats the magical thing all Joe asks is for a donation to the Leukemia society, you can use PayPal, or for us UKers you can print a form from Joe’s website and mail it to the USA. I can see this is going to be the way forward for Magical publishing, letting people get their ideas and creations to the masses with little or no cost, and Joe has done a generous thing of making his book Donation-Ware and for such a good cause… go and buy it!
Magic Portal Page: Offers free articles, effects, reviews and a Secret Library which features magical screen savers and some electronic magic books!
Cardshark Magic - The website for the Educated Card Player. This website has been set up by IGOR who is the Year 2000 S.A.M. Close-up National Champion. It gives you information on lots of gambling techniques and how to protect yourself.
Money Origami: Contains a few objects to be made from money, including the now classic Ring, and more unusual ones such as a spider, a shirt and even eyeglasses! Also has some links to other origami pages.
THE CARD PLANT: Gary Plant’s Webpage, lots of clever card stuff for sale including his Impossible Rising Cards and Magnetized Cards.
The Quidnunc - Paul Gordon’s Card Magic Journal: New Card Magic Journal, starts in January 2001, support it by subscribing and/or sending contributions.
Die Fertigen Finger: The Flicking Fingers, a group of 10 German Magicians, they Published a book called ‘Don’t Forget to Point’ and this website features some excerpts from the book.