The Rules of Cool

I've come up with these general rules for being cool. Let me know what you think.

1. If you start out uncool, trying to become cool is powerfully uncool.
2. If you manage to become cool, you must never speak of your old,
uncool self again.
3. Cool is defined by the subculture.
4. Cool is being just like everyone else, but different enough that
you retain your identity.
5. For some subcultures, "just like us" is a very broad category indeed.
6. Cool is not your clothes. It's how you own them.
7. Faking it is not cool, unless it's a joke.
8. Uncool people cannot produce cool stuff. Someoone who produces cool
stuff is, therefore, cool by definition.
9. Being different can be cool, as long as you started out "cool like us".
10. Cool is always fresh - becoming something new all the time. Because of this, what was cool yesterday is not quite as cool today.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Feel free to suggest additions.
PPS - Remember rule 10 before you suggest a specific item of clothing.