Every Monday, I rush to Crunch gym in order to sign up for one of the coveted 24 spots in my favorite gym class ever, Urban Rebounding. It’s like a race to make sure I’m there on time to score a position in class. For an hour, I bounce up and down on a mini trampoline, mixing dance moves and choreography into an aerobic workout. It’s not as easy as it sounds, and, in fact, you’ll find this is a full cardio workout. Once you’ve experienced Urban Rebounding you’ll understand. But that’s not the only child-like pastime making exercise waves these days: Hula-hooping is quickly catching up.

This laptop table tray by Zyane Tan combines two of our favorite activities: eating and computing. Now we might not feel like such slobs when we usually get crumbs all over the keyboard while browsing the morning news. Too bad we don’t have an extra $3,000 handy. [Unplggd]

The Vanity Fair Oscar party was crashed for the first time in 15 years on Sunday. The crasher, Gawker’s Ravi Somaiya had to sneak in hours in advance, steal passes left idle for a moment in a back room and hide in stairwells all to enjoy about seven minutes of party-going. While this may sound a bit frivolous, the duplicity required to get through the army of security guards, ex-CIA agents and celebrity handlers surrounding that event is actually pretty impressive and it has us thinking about our own party-crashing feats. While none rival Somaiya’s badass foray into the VF party, we’ve got a few accomplishments under our belts! (Like I may or may not have talked my way into 10 to 15 fashion shows I wasn’t invited to my first season in New York.) A few readers have pitched in their own tales of gate-crashing after the jump and we’d love to see yours in the comments!

Ever wonder how celebs look so svelte for major red carpet events? Thanks to a revealing new interview with nutritionist to the stahs Oz Garcia, we now know the answer: They stop eating solid foods! Duh.

Macs are some pretty hot computers. Literally. Somehow Steve Jobs hasn’t figured out how to make his machines function at a normal temperature, so toasting your lap with your MacBook Pro has become so normal, it’s practically a signature of the Apple brand. At first glance, this DIY pouch, which places your heat-generating power cord inside for you to snuggle up your feet next to, almost seems like an economic idea. Except for that it’s a safety concern to not properly ventilate your electronics ... and we’d maybe be paranoid that doing this too often would give us foot cancer. (If, that is, we don’t already have the lap kind.) [Geekologie]

Between late party nights and deadlines at work, it’s sometimes impossible to fit in the recommended eight hours of sleep per night needed to keep those under eye bags stowed. Here are eight ways to fake a refreshed and well-rested look even if you can’t remember the last time you snoozed soundly.

This cheeky diet scale doesn’t tell you how much you weigh, but it does tell you what you should be eating. So, if one day you’re instructed to eat “one piece of lettuce” and end up shedding a few pounds by the next day, which lets you eat a “deep fried pork loin,” won’t you just be back to lettuce the next day? Guess it would balance itself out. [PSFK]

Lately, my group of friends has gotten really into home entertaining. Call it an effect of the recession if you please, but we’re hosting potlucks, game nights, and movie screenings at out apartments like it’s nobody’s business. This means I regularly pop into corner stores on my way to the host’s house to pick up some cheap flowers, a six-pack, or dessert to contribute to the evening. These offerings aren’t exactly original, so I pulled something out of my mother’s arsenal the other night: cookies in a jar. “Make” oatmeal—or another variety—of cookies by following my video primer. Here’s the recipe I used: Country Oatmeal Cookie In A Jar (I left out the chocolate chips and walnuts). Keep reading for links to other varieties!

Artist Mark Reigelman spruces up public places like in this work, “Home Sweet Home,” in which he remodeled a bus stop to look like a quaint living room. [Homelife.com.au via NOTCOT]

For some, a morning cup of coffee is your own moment of calm and quiet before the day’s horrendous craziness. But for those who frequent U.K. coffee chain Puccino’s, they’ll find no such luck thanks to the company’s new chatty packaging. But, it is quite cute, you have to admit. See some more examples after the jump! [LovelyPackage.com]

It’s not that we expected the conservative talk show host’s bedroom(s) to be super sexy and chic, but we also didn’t think he got freaky in a boudoir straight out of Boca Raton circa 1976. Limbaugh’s New York apartment is for sale—you can see the rest of the gaudiness here.

When it comes to celebrity proposals, we expect big bling. Size matters, people. But now hubbies-to-be with money to burn should probably think again before purchasing a major rock to adorn their love’s ring finger. You see, in case you haven’t noticed, we’re kind of in a recession, and the idea of flaunting just how much money you make has become a bit grotesque. Instead of showing off their brilliant diamonds, which cost the men hundreds of thousands or even a million or more dollars, ladies are opting for simple wedding bands instead of doubling up their ring finger metal. So if your dreams are to wear a ring that hurts your finger, you might want to hold off on the proposal until the economy turns. [Stylelist]

You know how sometimes you’re out and talking to some dude and somehow the topic of conversation gets around to working out or muscles or some such thing and all of a sudden he’s flexing for you? Or, worse yet, doing that thing where he makes his chest muscle dance? No? Just me? Whatever, it happens and it’s weird as hell. It’s not, however, as weird as the 84-second video of a girl in a thong playing video games and flexing her epic butt cheeks. The perplexing video seems to have been generated by a dame who goes by the name of Tahiticora, but would probably be better used as the most successful video game ad ever. With almost 215,000 views in the last two weeks, the makers of whatever game she’s playing should probably be paying her royalties. Full, not particularly safe for work video making nerdy dudes everywhere very happy is after the jump. [Copyranter]

One intrepid Daily Green blogger ventured to find out by taking a step into the privileged world of Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP and road-testing the star’s highly recommended starvation “cleansing” diet. She even lived to tell the tale, and the results might surprise you.

Writer Jenny Muller readily admits the ridiculousity that GOOP so often encompasses. Her description of reading it is astute, to say the least ...

Taiwanese designer Lee Weilang’s Zipper Cups are so charming that they make having tea quite a titillating, bonding experience. The white ceramic mugs feature a zipper with a slit down one side. The cute design reflects two people coming together for conversation and also, conveniently, holds their tea bags in place. Who says fashion can’t be functional?

[$40 for two mugs and coasters, Molla Space]