Magic.org help forum and chat: Card, Close-up and Stage chat, specialist interests including ventriloquism, fire and hypnosis. Also includes the new Brainpoke forums run by Ryan Pilling.
Magic Hiway: let the magic happen to you at this new magic forum. Close-up, Street and Stage discussion and trick reviews.
NLP and Magic - information, articles, links for magicians: learn how to use Neuro Linguistic Programming in your magic to enhance your language, rapport and performance.
Second-hand juggling equipment: new site where you can buy, sell and exchange second hand juggling equipment.
Ezy Magic Weblog: new magical weblog by John Williams of Ezy Magic.
JD's Ramblings: another new magic weblog (come on guy's where you been?
) this time from JD, a guy who may be familiar to readers of MagicTalk. He used to post on there with his insane ramblings on magic, now he has a permanent home, and is currently posting older ramblings, with new ones to come!
Penguin on Metafilter: Is this a problem in having open magic dealers on the web? Metafilter is a fairly high volume blog, and Penguin has just made a FPP (front page post). Now as the comments suggest anyone can download Penguin's tutorials (of other people's effects!) for a few dollars... also does this show the public that magic isn't that special and anyone can learn it from buying a few DVD's... or did they already know that? I don't think we can ever go back to being a mysterious art where secrets were guarded and traded with care, as appose to splashed all over the Internet. On the other hand if anyone is going to put their money down, does this make them serious enough to know our secrets?
FooCan Blog: similar in style to Magic Circle Jerk the FooCan guys now have a weblog.
Método Simbólico: a website explaining about Juan Tamariz's system he released in 1978 in which he talks about a new format for the description of card tricks based on the categorization of the technical elements involved. This is a remarkable symbolic alphabet capable of describing the technical backbone of cardtricks. View some samples, a list of the symbols and download a demo of some symbol editing software.
AIMS: Association of International Magical Spectators. Run by Bob Loomis, play find the rabbit, read about magic magazines exposed, see the magicians bookplates, find out the real secret behind the Fizbin Drop and use the humourous card trick generator!
Card Splitting Tutorial: Ben Harris's simple tutorial that I never got round to blogging for some reason!
Al Kay's: Dealoop movie clips, see Al's reverse Havana Deal. Al also has a great guide to Card Splitting.
Beginner's Guide to Poker: some general tips on the game.
