Hello fellow TMNers,

I'm heading back to Beijing for a little bit and will be on a mission to find a magic shop while I'm there.

Justin Miller is offering a great deal at his website, and is making the deal even better exclusively for members of The Magic Network.

Here's the deal:

Anything is Possible.  Never Give Up.  Send Wonder.

These are the famous messages you'll find on Jamie D. Grant's  Limited Edition Banksy Deck box that he has used to create 100 very special Anything is Possible bottles.

As you all know, I am a dad, and I love magic, so of course, I highly support, and am very enthusiastic about, the following event.  I’ll be there, so come by and say hello!

Here’s the full info:

The Magic Network is now "Facebook Connect" enabled - but before you use it, please read this:

Yesterday and today, my four year old son has really been into turning everything he does into a magic trick.

Its kinda funny but also really encouraging and cool to see that the magic I have been showing him has been rubbing off on him and that he's interested in doing the same.  David Copperfield watch out, here comes my boy, the next master magician of the world!

We'll be announcing this month's contest after the Easter break, on Monday or Tuesday of next week, so stay tuned!

After that, we have a few more contest plans in the works that will be coming shortly after.

Those of you that use the chat bar will notice that there is a little playing card icon now in your private chats.

If you click on this playing card, you will send a game request to the person you are chatting with.  If your chat partner accepts the game request, you will be shown a link to launch the game window.

The video contest is coming to a close soon... here is how the judging is going down:

The last day to enter videos in the contest will be Friday January 29th, 2010.  No more entries will be considered after January 29, 2010 at 11:59pm GMT.

Just a quick one to announce that the reviews tool is ready to go now.

There are not a lot of listings yet, so you can safely add a listing without creating a duplicate, but in the future please search before creating listings.

If a listing already exists (I created listings for Thoughtless, Tarantula and The Paper Engine so far), you can just go ahead and write a review for it.

If a listing doesn't exist, you will need to create the listing and the review.  When creating the listing, please try to add an image and YouTube Demo video if possible.  For the description, you can just copy the description from Murphy's Magic or any other dealer's site.

Have fun with it!  The Advanced Search is awesome... you can even search based on price range... so if you are creating a listing, please enter the MSRP in USD if the item is not discontinued or out of print.

Right now points for reviews are not automated, but you will get 5 points for a review and 5 points for a listing - so if you create a listing and review it you'll get 10 points total.

Let me know if you create a listing and/or review for now so I can be sure to give you the points until I have it automated.

Also, now you get six points for each blog post that you post here on TMN under "Manage Your Blog."  One or two word blog posts don't count :-)