Heavy Metal Madness: It's All in the Cards: A history of playing cards from an American perspective written by Gene Gable. He bought a box of playing cards from a garage sale and decided to research the history of cards.
Little White Lies: David Walsh's site to advertise his e-book, view some of his video clips, see Jim Swain's Poker Interchange, Bruce Cervon's Dirty Deal and Louis Falanga's Squaw Valley Twist, plus some of David's own creations.
Martinka: museum of magic and magic shop. They sell antique magic props, photos, postcards, memorabilia etc. They also run a regular auction, sign up for the next one at the site.
Impossible Bottles: by Ben Philipsen of Belgium. See lots of things stuffed into bottles that shouldn't be able to be there!
Joyal Stack Forum: Discuss Magic in print and electronic format, also a specialised memorized deck forum.
Magi Adam Forums: General chat, access to videos and special guest forums.
The Magic Files: Cameron Roat & Ryan Dickey's new site, includes video, images, book contents, articles, biography's of Magicians, tricks and reviews. An excellent site, still in its infancy, so well worth keeping an eye on it.
The Magic Star Forums: discuss close-up and platform Magic, and the theory and business side as well.
Jerry Sadowitz: Talking through his hat: a recent article in the Independent on Jerry's latest tour of Scotland.
Telegraph - Did you see the Gorilla: article featuring Richard Wiseman and Simon Singh talking about change blindness, you can see some example footage on Singh's website. Richard Wiseman and Peter Lamont ran an interesting article in the November 2003 issue of MAGIC based on this theory, and even offered a version of the colour changing deck which would be interesting to see if it actually worked!
Trading Places: Walking illusion costumes, e.g. a man in a cage being carried by a gorilla! Or a man in a top hat being carried by a giant rabbit
See also some rider costumes, e.g. man on the back of an ostrich.
Sleight of Hand Magic Forum: discuss general magic, flourishes, close-up, illusions and mentalism.
