I no longer have my wallet. There are three possible explanations.

1. It was stolen from me in a carefully planned act of revenge carried out either by an individual or a small gang. I can think of five people with motives.

2. TERRORISTS! Duck and cover!

3. It fell out of my pocket.

Of course, it would never have happened if I’d been safely under house arrest.

Update: I searched the web for the phone numbers to call to cancel my cards. I Googled burtons store card and burtons card and got unhelpful but interesting results – particuarly the first one. But having lost my wallet, I can’t say I feel lucky.

Good news, everyone! The US Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for murderers who committed their crimes while under the age of 18, ruling it unconstitutional. Although the court voted 5-4, narrowly avoiding a penalty shootout, one vote is enough to swing it (if you’ll excuse my putting the “pun” in “capital punishment”). According to the Beeb, this ruling affects murderers who were 16 or 17 at the time as a similar ruling was made for under-16s in 1988.

As with all arbitrary age limits, this prompts a further question: why is it cruel and unusual to execute someone who murdered at 17 years 364 days old but not cruel and unusual for the state to kill someone who murdered at their 18th birthday party?

The plan last night was to watch all four hours of The 100 Greatest Cartoons on Channel 4. Due to a scheduling malfunction, I found myself watching The Top 100 Ugliest Comedians.

For anyone who didn’t stay up until midnight, here are the top 5.

5. Justin Lee Collins*
Yeah, the guy off Xfm.

4. Paul Tonkinson
Used to be on The Sunday Show if you remember that.

3. Rob Deering
Pork scratchings, anyone?

2. Simon Donald*
Like Simon Pegg but with all the bits of his face in the wrong place.

1. Rob Rouse
Irritating member of the Friday Night Project gang. He’s the raddled one at the very front.

Your mileage may vary (ugliness is in the eye of the beholder after all), but you have to imagine them dumbly singing cartoon theme tunes and making twenty-year-old comments about Cheetara for the full effect.

I am of course not say that I look great myself. That’s for other people to say.

*May not technically be a comedian, but Chicken Run isn’t technically a cartoon.

I’ve been watching Babylon 5 from the beginning on DVD and have reached the (excellent, I recall) fifth season episode The Fall of Centauri Prime. However, the Region 2 release is missing the pre-title sequence, a pretty vital component as it pays off the cliffhanger from the previous episode and sets up the following scene.

Trawling the net, I found that other people have reported this problem with the UK and Australian releases. It seems that three minutes were cut from the episode in a ham-fisted attempt to remove the “Previous on Babylon 5” sequence. No news yet of Warner making replacement discs available.

This is the second disappointment on “The Complete Fifth Season” set (aside from some of the actual episode content). The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father when originally broadcast had a specially produced Psi Corps title sequence which has been replaced by the standard titles on the Region 2 release. The titles have been remastered once for each season and then put on all the episode of that season, regardless of any variations present in the original broadcast.