UPDATE 16th March: It's here!

Reasons to buy it immediately:

1) Because you're in it. This probably goes without saying, but you might like to buy multiple copies to pass out smugly to friends, colleagues and distant relatives who always said you would Amount To Nothing.
2) Because people you don't know are in it. You don't know it yet, but some of them are really lovely. And some of them might find you really lovely too. You could get a shag out of it. Hey, it worked for me.
3) It's for charity. Obviously. And it will allow you to maintain your unimpeachably cool and fashionable disdain for Comic Relief while still actually helping other people.
4) It's a beautifully published tome (with the publisher's cut donated too), funny in nature and sturdy of construction ideal for beating soundly about the person any tiresome fool your should encounter who insist that blogging is nothing more than a collection of dull people talking about what they had for dinner. Some of us talk about lunch, too.
5) It's a lovely eye-catching green and will look good on your bookshelf for when that girl from HR whose knickers you've been trying to get into for the past six months comes round and you're plying her with cheap red wine and Nina Simone and she starts to look at your books, trying surreptitiously to see if you're the kind of man she'll put out for but you haven't had a chance to dig around in your attic for the James Joyce and Kafka you haven't read since A-levels to display prominently yet subtly.

Shaggy Blog Stories: a collection of amusing tales from the UK blogosphere

When I was eleven or so, Comic Relief was a big event in my school. Not because we were the kind of saintly, well-bred middle class children of the Blue Peter demographic who willingly shook tins and organised the baking of cakes for children in hot places less fortunate than ourselves, no. We were the kind of irritating little shits who liked to buy the plastic nose and wear it with a unwavering, smartarse grin to every lesson to wind up the teachers who couldn't say anything because it was For Charity. Some of us even paid the 50p to come into school in our own clothes, though that opportunity was sadly withdrawn in subsequent years after the debacle with Christopher Wainwright, the Hypercolour t-shirt and the improvised potato stamp in the shape of a cock made the local paper. Anything to break up the tedium though, which is pretty much the same reason I'm sitting here in the office right now wearing latex knickers as I type.^*

Mike at Troubled Diva, however, is not wearing latex knickers. He has found something much more productive to do than sit around all day making his colleagues wonder where that strange squeaking sound is coming from. He is doing the 2007 equivalent of saving up all his milk bottle tops to buy someone an electric wheelchair and is organising an anthology of writing from UK bloggers that promises to be even funnier than the aforementioned amusingly-shaped potato stamp incident.

Shaggy Blog Stories: a collaborative blog-stunt for Comic Relief

Are you the justifiably proud owner of a UK weblog who suspects they might have a funny post mouldering somewhere in the dusty depths of their archives? Submit it for publishing!

Are you the owner of a weblog outside of the UK or one so dreadfully dull you only post pictures of your children or how, like, the girl sitting next to you in maths is like, such a bitch? Publicise the event and try to buck up your ideas for next time!

None of the above? Buy the book when it comes out and extol its virtues to family, friends and strangers at the bus stop alike!

You'll get a surge of warmth in your cockles you haven't experienced since you once bought a Big Issue from a man in Covent Garden in 1995 and you won't have to wear a horrible t-shirt, affix anything gaudy to the front of your car or even have to listen to any Lenny feckarse Henry to do so.

^*Some of this may not be strictly true