Magic Books Research Tool: Jacky Kahan's new forum that brings together content lists of books from various sites and others submitted by members, a great and fascinating resource.
Gregg Webb: has just released an e-book on CD called 'The Book that doesn't exist and more...' the CD contains all the copies of his feen-x magazine, the book that doesn't exist and SOSOHA, looks great value for money at $30.
Magic Auction: Kevin Gallagher's new Magic Auction site has just gone live, might be a nice alternative to e-bay.
Brainpoke Blog: Ryan Pilling's new BrainPoke weblog including a new version of the Random Idea Generator.
Sleeping Beauty Problem: a puzzle similar in logic to the Monty Hall puzzle, but this really will make your head hurt! Check out some other links to the same problem:
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty Awakened
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty Awakened
Steve Pellegrino: has a new blog called Magic Rants, well worth a read, Steve also does some web work for L&L and has started a new L&L blog over there.
Monty Hall Problem: this famous problem is based on the game show of the same name, basically he would give you a chance to win a good prize behind one of three doors, you would select one, and then Monty would open another door and show you what was behind it, he wouldn't open the one with the prize behind, so that left you with the door you selected and the other door, now is it to your advantage to switch your choice of door? Some people find it hard to get their head around the fact that yes you stand a much better chance of winning if you switch... follow the links on the page to find out why, or check out a Simulation
and background explanation. Also Bob Farmer wrote a couple of articles on this in recent GENII magazines which are worth the read, and this problem also appears in the currently best selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
and background explanation. Also Bob Farmer wrote a couple of articles on this in recent GENII magazines which are worth the read, and this problem also appears in the currently best selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time.
Playing Cards with CSS: how to create playing card images on web pages using a bit of CSS magic.
Magical Trevor: from the makers of The Badgers comes a new toon called Magical Trevor, very funny if you like the Weebl and Bob style of humour. I wonder if thats what you get to see in David Copperfield's Thirteen illusion!
Genii Open Index: Cameron Roat has taken on the project of keeping an index of Genii Magazine started by Graham Nichol, if you have a few spare moments, and some old copies of Genii why not help out.
Lee Asher Magic Posters: download some 11x17 colour magic posters to have professionally printed to help celebrate Lee's Birthday!
Peter McLanachan: The Cardman has a new website, with tricks from Peter Duffie, Roy Walton and Bill Goodwin.
Ryan Matney: co-editor of FooCan, read about his new card book Card Jones, which I can tell you is excellent, well worth the purchase, also watch the site for free tricks.
Liam Montier: creator of the Henry Sugar trick, read about his new Bizzare Magic project called Equinox, and his new bizzare e-book The Furtive Glance.
Don Alan: a link to a video clip of Don Alan on the That's Incredible reunion show doing his Chop Cup routine.
