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.

The Magical Web: Has several good articles, check out the spotlight feature.

Nokia Game 2000: I’ve just joined the Nokia Game, should be a laugh. Basically they will send you clues via SMS on your phone and you have to have access to the Internet and Radio, TV and Papers etc. I just hope I have the time in November to play, sign up now its running in 18 different countries…

Cool Homepages: I need some ideas for a re-design!

In-Situ WYSIWYG web editor: a nice edior that is written in javascript using IE’s Document Object Model (DOM) that actually sits in your webbrowser and allows you to edit the page in-line.

Sheep Game - A game of virtual sheep herding: Its an experiment in using Flash with PHP and SQL, all based around a cute little game, very cool! Watch out for his new game Olympigs…

1FONTS - Hundreds of free fonts, pc truetype and mac fonts. All free. Haven’t had much chance to go through them all, but hopefully I will be able to find a font to do a new header… maybe a new re-design of the site as well, and while I am at it I might even move the server so I can run PHP arghhh!

Magician Blaine Conjures Up Icy Web Deal: Blaine has signed a deal with iCast to provide coverage of his iceblock stunt. Also his site will have video and photos and chats. Personally IMHO I really dislike his (lack of) presentation style, which consists of sidling up to people and saying “Can I show you something!” But that aside he has made Magic cool again getting rid of the box pushers and bird handlers…

Original Sinclair ZX81 Kits: Very tempted to buy one of these just for nostalgia sake, but a bit expensive at

Grand Illusions: A site featuring optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. Check out the yoghurt pot with a memory, and the feature articles are a brilliant read.

purely magic: the official website of aaron smith. Home of silk through card, phenomenon, mind leaper, unlikely evidence, methodical.

Remote Show Control - Shows you how to Control your show with a laptop, and cue music on demand.

Tenyo Phantom Clock Patent: this time a patent for Lubor Fielders Tenyo trick. A very clever idea typical of the Lubor way of thinking!

Patent Optical Illusion device for Concealing an object for produciton: Another patent link, just like Copperfields Flying patent. This one is for a production box.

Kingston Cons - the future of telecommunications: Obviously some people don’t agree with my view on the price change. I really think though that the other ISP’s will get clogged up and have constant engaged tones. I guess I will stay with Karoo for now and see how the other ISP’s cope and what reports they get as more and more people hop on the wagon, I will NOT change to AOL though on a matter of principal

Kingston Internet Ltd are my ISP and as I mentioned earlier in my blog are changing all their prices. I’ve just telephoned them to upgrade to the Karoo Anytime service, which is a whopping

Joseph Wu’s Origami Page: the first link to an origami page on this blog! I said I’d try to bring you more than just magic links… this one is via usr/bin/girl one of my favourite blogs… I should really try to make some models I picked up Robert Harbings ‘Magic of Paper Folding’ whilst on holiday, not a bad find for about

MCPCentral.Com - Flash & ASP Part1: Learn how to integrate the nice frontend of flash with the power of ASP, I’m in the process of teaching myself Flash4 but I guess this will be a little outdated now Flash5 has been released. The second part of the tutorial covers a little bit of Flash5.