A New York State senator wants to ban the use of iPods in some big city crosswalks, apparently out of fear that legions of zombie-eyed pedestrians are entering “iPod oblivion” and marching en masse into cars and buses. As a devoted iPod user who rarely ventures into city streets without my little white ear buds, I’m less than thrilled with the proposition. It’s really rather absurd. How in the world would this be enforced? Is New York planning on hiring a small army of ear bud monitors to roam the streets in order to hunt down offenders? “You there! With the knapsack and the Fall Out Boy hoodie! Take out those ear buds!” What would be the point? It’s not like anyone with an iPod would even hear.