Hedgehogging

Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.
Apparently Japan plans to set up an experimental high-tech wireless zone on the island of Hokkaido next year. The zone will reportedly include sensors allowing doctors to remotely monitor the health of the elderly and providing alerts for drivers if pedestrians are nearby. This smells like trouble. Hasn’t the Japanese government learned that when they venture head-long into new technology, something always goes terribly wrong and some mutant reptile ends up destroying Tokyo? It’s not like Ultraman can always come to the rescue.
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The FCC’s answer to solving universal service funding is to cap the amount wireless carriers can receive from the fund-even though wireless is the cheaper telecom alternative? And that makes sense-because wireless has sucked up $2 billion of USF funds vs. the $24 billion that landline carriers have taken from the fund. See, this is what’s wrong with government today.
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The “American Idol” finale is this week, so enough already with the Verizon Wireless top 10 lists. Two weeks ago the carrier put out the top 10 most-downloaded Bee Gees songs to coincide with the appearance of one of the Gibb brothers on “American Idol,” which is sponsored by AT&T Mobility. Last week, Verizon Wireless put out a top 10 list of Paula Abdul songs. Who knew she had 10 songs?
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Google announced its Universal Search application. We’re assuming all we need to do to find anything now is to yell and a list will appear instantly.
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Current mobile bowling games are about to become obsolete as Ojom announced plans to release The Big Lebowski Bowling game. Based on one of the best movies to feature a bowling alley, the game is really nothing more than a standard bowling game except it includes a few scenes with “The Dude.” But that’s enough to make it awesome.