Soft Wallets and Palm Reading
By Dale Dougherty
Forget tarot cards. Forget sending a handwriting sample to a graphologist. Instead, consult with Daniel Will-Harris, a pioneer in the field of walletology. He claims to be able to judge your personality based on a careful examination of the contents of your wallet. Will-Harris, who might otherwise be judged as another Internet eccentric, edits Web Review's Webfonts.com, so I know him to have a technical bent. He has developed a lengthy questionnaire that he hopes to turn into a book called Wallet Reading. "The great thing about my Wallet Reading system," he told me, "is that you can get almost anyone to open their wallet -- and consequently their personality -- to you, which is a great way to meet and really get to know people."
Then there's a site called What's Inside Jeremy's Wallet (www.inforamp.net/~xeno/wallet/.). I don't know Jeremy Wilson, but he's done a terrific job of organizing his wallet as a personal home page that displays materials that prove his existence: driver's license, credit cards, business cards, insurance cards, and so on.
After all, you don't really know what's real on the Internet or whether you are being spoofed. Tom Arriola is the creator of the Crime Scene Evidence File (www.crimescene.com) in which he tells the story of a criminal investigation by showing the physical evidence collected from the crime scene.
