We are remiss. It’s been a bit since we’ve blogged about blogs. We shall make up for it today, because we are so in the mood to hop from one to the next, soaking up the ambience, letting them tempt us, delighting in the ones that tell us things we don’t know. Are you game?

Have you visited Racked? Right now it — and many New Yorkers — are being harassed by Topshop, which (ta-da!) finally opens in Soho tomorrow after partying tonight. Apparently the Topshop vehicle - sort of a pink ice-cream truck-looking thing with doodling all over it (above) — was full of Topshop totes with gift cards tucked inside in amounts from $5 to $500, and they’ve been driving around, Twittering their locations and giving the tote bags away.

Oh, how we wish we were being harassed in this manner. When Racked isn’t blogging about Topshop and linking to photos of it in Glamour), it’s walking around at street level, wondering if Chanel is pulling an April Fools’ prank (right), watching the Derek Lam construction permits, and noticing things like the windows at Moschino or the Alice + Olivia sale in Midtown. We cannot even (more…)

Blogs are carnivorous. Did you know that? We would like to do away with each other, usually, because we are all in the market for the same thing: You. 

So when The Style Insider points you toward other blogs, it’s because we really really like them. We think they rock. We want to go to their apartment, have a cup of tea, check our look in the mirror and then go shopping, and we’re bringing you along, too. (We trust your opinion in the dressing room, you know?) 

55 Secret Street has it going on. She swoons for Michelle Obama’s look, as do we, and is busy deciding who should play her on Saturday Night Live (current pick: Aisha Tyler). She (more…)

We are in a mood for attitude today. We are in a mood for people who sass their bosses, who talk back when they shouldn’t, who get their mouths washed out with soap. We’re going trolling for bloggers who believe they are the center of the universe, and say so.

We are in the mood for Fashion Binge, actually, which is right now (a) dying for Office’s gray patent platforms ($109, left), (b) doubting whether Topshop will ever, ever open, and is grooving on Nicole Richie’s House of Harlow jewelry ($22-$125, above) while waiting for the Barbie Loves Stila products at her Sephora store ($40-$72). It’s a tall order, but Fashion Binge seems up to it. (more…)

We’re all about January, with all the fresh starts and resolutions, the shiny-clean feeling this time of year brings. Let’s take a spin through a few fresh beauty blogs and see who’s glowing (and what they’re exfoliating with):

We loooooove Beauty Snob, because they just don’t stop with the attitude. They pick a Casio EX-Z3000 digital camera based on how great it makes your skin look ($278 at Amazon), and their Snob Trends for 2008 obsess over Clarisonic skin care systems, ($195, above) rotating mascara wands and Thymes diffusers ($60).

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The Style Insider overspent during the holidays.

This will most likely not surprise TSI’s dear readers, who understand our love for pretty things. And perhaps some of you share our plight. So today, we are touring fabulous fashion and style blogs that emphasize more style and less money. It’s the responsible thing to do, n’est ce pas? At least for this week.

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We’re in this very brief lull, somewhere between thank-heaven-Halloween-is-over and OMG-I’m-not-ready-for-Christmas. It seems the perfect time for a little escapism, a little skipping around the Web, poking into some of our favorite blogs of the week.

We love inside information, and we love California Style, a combination of celebrity peeks, sample sales and hints on where to get something cute for Saturday night. This week the blog teases us with the Restoration Hardware Friends & Family Holiday event, and tells us that Alicia Keys carried a Zufi Alexander Spring 2009 Y Clutch in fuschia eel (left) to the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo (Here’s a somewhat similar Zufi, albeit in a calmer shade, for $1,300).

Style It’s mantra is “Where the fashion nerd meets the pop culture obsessed,” and it’s as fun to poke around in as a sale bin at the Clinique counter. Here she tries out Smashbox’s Master Class Vol 2. Special Effects Set ($59, above right), over there she’s raving

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We see you there, somewhere between lunch and the marketing meeting, shopping on the Web instead of tweaking that spreadsheet. We see you and we applaud, because we understand retail therapy and its power to soothe a rocky afternoon. Let us make your surreptitious surfing easier with a few blogs guaranteed to take your mind off your Blackberry:

Shop Diary: Here’s a blog with an agenda you’ll understand: She shops the sales to reward herself for a lot of hard work, and ends up with shoes to wear to work. We adore her Christian Louboutin Simple 100 Pumps, ($575, left), and plan to work them into our capital budget next year.

Threadless: Sick of the suits and heels? Soothe your inner rock star at Threadless, where there’s a T-shirt for any circumstance. Every Monday, the site features new shirts; this week, we’re digging the Now Panic and Freak Out ($15, right), Sleep is So Last Night ($15), and Infamous Mishaps Throughout History designs ($18). (Can you tell we’re thinking about work?)

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