As a result of a college basketball injury, I have an ankle that’s, at baseline, pretty weak. Earlier last week, I was walking down a set of stairs with some of my co-residents, and managed to roll the ankle; I couldn’t stand up afterwards, had problems walking for the next few days, and have ended up in an aircast for the indefinite future. Luckily, though, it isn’t broken… I had images of myself hobbling around the hospital on crutches, unable to get anything done.

Prediction: if Scripting News becomes a radio station, most of its readers won’t convert to listeners. The mediums aren’t comparable, and I know that the way I read SN doesn’t translate into audio.

So, let’s see — judges are perfectly willing to withhold from the public the information on their own federal financial disclosure forms, saying that the release of the information is tantamount to a security threat, yet Planned Parenthood has to fight to keep the names of its employees secret? I think that it’s pretty clear that forcing the organization to surrender a list of all its employees puts all their lives in danger; I’m not quite sure if knowing which stocks a judge owns comes even remotely close.

The near-mint/mint Honus Wagner baseball card went for $1.1 million this weekend on eBay; with the 15% buyer’s premium, that’s $1.265 million. Interestingly, this same card has been owned by Wayne Gretzky and Wal-Mart in its past, and is considered the most valuable card in existence. CNN/fn has an article about the card and the auction.

Absent all of the other reasons I want my ass firmly planted on a Pacific Island beach this weekend, I would love to be able to see the lunar eclipse live. (That MSNBC article has a neat little interactive teaching page which explains what a lunar eclipse is, too; I must admit that I never understood the optics of it.)

Apparently, the next version of Windows 2000 will drop support for AppleTalk and NetBEUI. I expect that you’ll hear a lot of complaining about this; whenever Microsoft adds features to their operating systems, it’s accused of putting third party vendors out of business, and when MS removes features, it’s lambasted for ignoring the needs of its customers and conspiring against people who use those features.

If you thought that Microsoft has it bad with all the various lawsuits it’s fighting, then take a look at the roster of groups who have lawsuits pending against all the tobacco companies. (Of course, we’re talking about vastly different types of companies, although many Microsoft haters will now try to draw parallels until they’re blue in the face.)