The Coolest Kids in Town: a blog about Baltimore, DC, and the misadventures of two-city life.

Well, children, it's been a while. Tex has been very busy wearing black-rimmed glasses, frowning at powerpoint slides in mostly-white rooms, and buying lots of economy fare tickets to San Francisco (these activities are collectively and laughably known as "founding a startup") . But that's all settled now. The lawyers have gone home and Tex can dedicate her full attention to you, Cutty darling. So we're going to get pretty. First stop is London, to visit  Shirley's Wardrobe . An offensively beautiful collection of clothes you'd probably look ridiculous wearing ( what are those puffy coats even made of?!) , it's nonetheless aesthetic inspiration for the city-chic chick. If nothing else, it will remind you to keep your eyebrows plucked.        So with our wardrobe in order, we'll traipse along to visit Sarah, an old friend of Mummy's whose love letter to the world at large is  Note to Self . Beautiful clothes, beautiful no...

OK, so usually I try to keep things in a theme, which I am sure you people appreciate because you are relatively classy individuals. However, today, I am so inundated with really cool shit that I can barely walk, let alone organize it into a simplified theme. With that in mind, I give you: Meebo , a website where you can go and, with absolutely no obligation or messy downloads, logins, or extra windows, use your AIM, Yahoo! messenger, GoogleTalk, MSN messenger, or ICQ in-place. It's awesome for if you happen to be at work, or in a library or the computer section of a BestBuy or something like that. GrandCentral by Google is a website that lets you register a phone number in any part of the US, then have your calls forwarded through that number to a number of your choice. Allows for great consolidation - the only downside is that your callers will be required to state their name before the call will even connect. If you call that a downside. ELDUB is a random, cool, visually appea...