Before I found out that the FCC is claiming that the rumor of the impending release of cell phone numbers to telemarketers is a hoax... at least for now..., I went running in a panic over to the National Do Not Call Registry and registered (with trembling fingers) my family's cell phones, adding to the flood of such requests. So now, in addition to the bitter shame of knowing that I've been used as a meme vector (*sob*), I've got this nagging suspicion that it's all part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to get everyone's phone numbers associated with their email address so that the Department of Homeland Security can keep better track of the citizenry using Starlight 3.0:

Anticipating terrorist activity requires continually decoding the meaning behind countless emails, Web pages, financial transactions, and other documents. [...] For tracking terrorist networks, you can simultaneously bring in telephone intercepts, financial transactions, and other documents ... all into one place, which wasn't possible before.