I am drinking Moet at the BBC. Clearly I am living the middle-class dream.

Oh for god's sake, I wish people would stop trying to blow us up. It's very inconvenient and doesn't make us feel any more sympathy for their cause.

Take my quiz and you could win an exciting MP3 player!

I'd quite like an MP3 player but I'm not allowed to enter these competitions anymore. Boo hiss.

Oh yes. And as if I could forget, check out Polly Paulusma. I can't spell her name but she's easily this generation's Joni Mitchell and Carole King combined. Beautiful.

Best band of the week: Louis XIV - their entire album is listenable to on www.louisxiv.net and is like the Stones with more balls.

Best album: Paul Anka, Rock Swings. Utterly, utterly, brilliant: big band covers of, among others, Van Halen's 'Jump', 'Eye of the Tiger' and that bloody Nirvana song. Steal a copy if you must.

Delightful fact of the day: Uncut's music editor is extremely fond of Girls Aloud and insisted the office put the new single on immediately. He even did a little dance which was excellent.

Yah boo sucks to anyone who thinks England is a cold miserable place. The office is 32 degrees which makes it a hot, miserable place. I love my fan. I feel like Scarlett o'Hara with a more impressive cooling system.

Be warned. The ugliest dog in the world is not even remotely cute. At least his owner loves him.

Politicians form a band! MP4 is made up of Labour's Kevin Brennan (guitar and vocals) and Ian Cawsey (Bass and lead vocals), the Scottish National Party's Pete Wishart (keyboards) and Conservative Greg Knight (drums) and are releasing a single for Charidee (aww, bless their little MP hearts). You can download the single, a cover of 'Can't Buy Me Love' at http://www.7digital.com/downloads/mp4/ if you really must, or you could just pop a couple of quid in a tin. (CMU)

Urban Rocky is awesome. Shame about the lack of steps though.

Quality odd news courtesy of CMU Daily. So much for being at one with the earth (although having witnessed how the fruit farm has underpaid my brother for the last four years, I'm not entirely surprised.)

After MyCokeMusic and whatever it is McDonalds does, the California Tree Fruit Agreement have done a deal with iTunes (Apple! Oh the hilarity!) which allows people who buy three pounds of fruit and some form of salad package thing (which I doubt you'll need after three pounds of fruit but never mind) you get three iTunes free. Oooh fancy! Couldn't they just start growing apples anyway? It would be ever so funny.

Having suspended our belief for the last week I reckon we can just about stretch it til Saturday morning - it's almost Harry Potter o'clock! A very nice lady answered at my local Smith's, sounding just a mite harassed at the prospect of a midnight opening. The very fact that Petersfield is having a midnight opening at all goes to show how the place is growing up - they'll be having sushi bars next. Blimey...

The inevitable left-wing middle-class guilt about yesterday has started. One friend, aka Mr Slim embarked on a weary diatribe featuring the words "war" "Blair" and simliar. 'I just found myself thinking "well these things will happen if you spend long enough fucking around with foreign countries you don't understand" and things like that,' says he. not that it's not terrible for the people involved of course, but it just seemed inevitable and not even that shocking any more tbh.' Fair enough. 'I guess I would have felt differently if I'd been near any of the scenes,' he said realistically, followed by the killer, 'as it was I was in bed.'

This was counterpointed (delicious word, DELICIOUS) by Niall, splashing through London from Glastonbury en route to Korea, curling his lip in contempt, and saying: 'Yes the commuters clearly said "Excuse me, Mr Terrorist, please blow me up to sate my guilt at the horrible inequalities of this world".

Whatever. It's easy to put yourself in someone else's shoes, but if they do the same you end up where you are to begin with. Oh god, the tortuous pseudo-philosphical tarting of it all. It hurts my brain.

La Repubblica was sadly pretty much right - around 50 fatalities substantiated. Let's all shower love on Alabam 3 who have amused me greatly this morning with this post on the Gumtree LDF.

"Alabama 3 are ok apart from Orlando who sustained cuts and bruises at kings cross. Furthermore, he blames their agent for getting them up at 0700hrs for the first time in months to be at Caledonian Road for 0915hrs to proceed to catch a plane to the Czech republic for a festival - this caused him to be at Kings Cross at the fatal timel. the band reiterate to their agent that it is dangerous to get them up before midday. Their thoughts are with all their fellow sufferers in their home town.

LarryLove"

La Repubblica is reporting a far worse story than the BBC can, for obvious reasons. While here we have suggestions of 90 injured and two confirmed dead, at Aldgate, LR is reporting at least 70 dead, with 150 injured. Jesus Christ.

There are rumours flying around everywhere: that police shot a man with a bomb strapped to him in Canary Wharf, that Leicester Square's been affected (it hasn't, we'd see anything from our window)...it's just so crazy.

Tony Blair gave a wonderful speech at Gleneagles. That's it. Our music editor is now getting pissed off at receiving PR emails telling us about so and so's new gig. Life must go on, but some PRs seem to be intensely vampiric. Bless. What a surprise.

Three buses have now blown up and there are a lot of casualties. Phone networks are jammed and it's pretty much impossible to get in touch with people. Bloody ridiuclous, you're right up at the top of a building, look outside and you can't see any signs of anything being wrong: people strolling around, cars dragging through the roads, London Eye still turning.

This is ridiculously weird. I've got a horrible cold feeling running through me.

Woo! We won the Olympics! And in celebration the whole of London has been shut down due to a 'power surge' on the Tube. However, it's markedly unlikely that a similar 'power' surge' could be to blame for the bus which exploded in Tavistock Square. What the fuck is going on? Our news editor has been on the phone cheerily saying that, up in a socking great building as we are, we're "Bully's Special Prize". Charming, bless him. Whoever blew up this bus has got their timing perfect - coincidence or not, the power surge is going to amplify the effects of the bomb, so that from just one explosion, it's now as if they're to blame for everything. Started with the G8, now it's spread. Wankers.

Gossip essentials Popbitch and lame pretender Holy Moly are having what seems to be the lamest hissy fit in the history of cat fighting. In this week's newsletters they use the age-old 'copy/paste' technology to slag off one show and add 'dignity' to the other: Popbitch slams Big Brother while Holy Moly does the same for Celebrity Love Island. *Yawn* - HM tries, and looks terribly shiny, but its gossip's just not as diverting. Popbitch had to make yet another apology this week, this time to Lisa Moorish. Oops.

Yes, it's morning again which means it's time for yet more procrastination instead of doing work/research/other. Which Revenge of the Sith Character are you? I'm equal parts Darth and Padme. It's a fine line between good and evil.

...Happily I get to find a new religion every day with the portable and cheerful Plug-Pray! So blasphemous that 9/10 Christian fundamentalists would burn down your house if you bought one.

The problem with being enthusiastic and desperate on the weekends means that when you actually come into college, there's no damn paper. I found one scrap of it lurking in the depths of the printer with a link to something called prismcomics.org on it.

"Comics eh?" sez I, still revelling in the fact that a recently purchased back issue of Essential X-Men had a letter of mine in it, "That sounds significantly better than whatever it was I was doing." So I read several witty, informative and screwy pieces on Supergirl, whether the Human Torch is actually as gay as he's presented, the utterly terrifying "Family Values" Coalitions in the States and their battles against gay comic characters and about a two-part issue of the Green Lantern focusing on gay hate crimes.

Prism is a site focusing on LGBT representation and undertones in comics with as much adoration for the format as any fanboy worth their salt. It's not geeky, nor pedantic, it is however bloody addictive. I'm clearly not going to get any work done today...

What's the deal with the 350 german spam messages I got today? Is someone on some kind of crusade to bring German magazines to public consciousness? It's bloody anooying is what it is. Oh well, at least the new Coral song is ace. Good for that.

The boring revision frenzy of yesterday has dwindled into the frenzied playing of the truly awesome Spongebob Collapse. 1,518,980 to beat. Game on suckas...

What was number 1 when you were born? Yes we care. I care. I got Culture Club and the theme from that Debra Winger navy flick. Rock!

Today we are mostly adoring badgerbadgerbadger. See why.

Oh god my head hurts. People should not be allowed to use computers when they're drunk.

Trumpeting removed for being stupidly arrogant. More so even than usual.
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I'm going to have a trumpet blowing session in a minute. Possibly with a brass section. So if you don't like it, go away. I'm 22 and have the shame of a lemon. And the ego of a 22 year old. Just so you're warned sufficiently - this is nice things about ME! Me! Me! Oh yes, me as well.

This is so incredibly wrong i think it's going through my head and out the other side, but hey, otters are best, and clearly the person who wrote sex tips for otters thought so too.

Do you love horses? Do you want to get some, but you just don't love your hors that much? There's a solution! Why not date tens of thousands of single horse lovers? It's actually rather sweet...

Green eh? Would have been nice to get someone who actually stood a chance of getting elected ;) Oh well, guess this means I'm going to have to rely on actual knowledge on Thursday.

Who should I vote for? v2

Your expected outcome:

Liberal Democrat

Your actual outcome:

	Labour 9
	Conservative 8
	Liberal Democrat 47
	UKIP 10
	Green 55

You should vote: Green

The Green Party, which is of course strong on environmental issues, takes a strong position on welfare issues, but was firmly against the war in Iraq. Other key concerns are cannabis, where the party takes a liberal line, and foxhunting, which unsurprisingly the Greens are firmly against. The Greens are also anti-Europe.

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

Something I never knew: Doctors is a training academy for new writers! I thought it was getting better... Even more lovely, Wednesday's episode is written by a tv critic from the Guardian! Read about it here because it's rather fab.