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The next time you're lacing up for a run and Sir Woofsalot is giving you that sad "but I could come with you" look, you might consider looking into Fetching, Toronto's first fitness bootcamp that you do with your dog. Founder Sal Sloan says she used to feel a bit guilty, heading out for a workout while her dog Chewy had to lay low at home, so she developed a series of fitness classes for owners and dogs to do together. With a number of class options, and an expanding selection of locations throughout Toronto, Fetching might just be at the helm of a human/dog fitness trend.

Here's the link.

Extra kudos go to Fetching's very cool identity, developed by our friends at Archerfish Studio.

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In the 1940s, the United States Navy commissioned from the Electric Machine and Equipment Company (Emeco) a chair that would be able to withstand the impact of torpedo blasts to the side of the battleship that carried it. The Emeco 1006 was born - the result of a 2-week, 77-step manufacturing process that gives the aluminum beauty a life expectancy of 150 years. After a few appearances on Sex and the City, as well as being featured inspiration for a line of Philippe Starck furniture, the 1006 has reestablished its footing as an ageless classic, which has led to its marriage to another American icon.

Emeco has teamed with Coca-Cola to create the 111 Navy Chair - a plastic reproduction of the original 1006, made from the plastic of 111 Coca-Cola bottles. Available for order online, Emeco and Coke expect the 111 Navy Chair project to keep an estimated 3 million plastic bottles out of landfills, which is the beginning of an ageless classic of its own.

And with colour names like Grass and Persimmon - and of course Coca-Cola Red - we couldn't ignore this beauty.

Click here before this link turns into a good looking chair.

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We love the customization trend, so here's a sweet Summer bit of custom ordering that'll definitely turn some heads. Smart cars is offering a chance to wrap your new little 'fortwo' in any number of custom prints and patterns, including topological designs, streetmaps, houndstooth, racecar patterns - the list goes on. Available to upload your own design also - or for those who wish to play it safter, there's an array of about 30 colours to choose from if you wish to leave the sporting of pattern to your louder friends.

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Humanity is rediscovering the pleasures of salt. Worshipped for millennia for its power to heal, not to mention its primitive potential to preserve food, salt has played a key role in our civilization. And now, gourmet salts are powdering the world with delightful flavours and sensations we'd never dreamed of before, as well as upping the visual experience of cruets everywhere thanks to some of those colours. So long, Sifto. Bonjour Himalayan Pink and Salish Smoked. The site below has a salt gift shop where you can order sample sets of gourmet salts to begin the next level of your gastro-sensual education. Popcorn will never be the same.

http://www.saltistry.com

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Every day in New York City, a kitchen in a truck by the name of Sugar makes the rounds, selling freshly baked cookies, brownies and the sweet like to passersby. The Treats Truck was the brainchild of Kim Ima and borne of her dual love of baking and New York City. Ima offers a rotating selection of both innovati and classics including Oatmeal Jammies, Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies and rice crispy squares. Ima and her team don't purport to make anything fancy, merely some of the best baked sweets you could grab on a weekday Manhattan afternoon. The website offers a daily schedule of when and where in the city "Sugar" might be found. Available for special orders.

http://www.treatstruck.com

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Well it's a far cry from the fire pit over which you roasted marshmallows as a kid. The outdoor kitchen trend was borne of the behemoth barbecues of the 90s and is mushrooming into a common feature of the 21st Century home. What started as an additional burner or two on your Weber has turned into an entire outdoor room complete with rotisserie system, dishwasher, fire-pit table, stainless steel condiment cabinet, plate-warming drawer, ice machine -- you get the point. Dining al fresco will never be the same.

http://outdoorkitchenconcepts.com/betadesign/index.html

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Read all about it. Well, at least read the headline. CNN and Boston's Barbarian Group have teamed up on a venture to bring a selection of CNN.com's headlines to t-shirts near you. The idea is to immortalize newsworthy moments that would otherwise be quite fleeting, along with the rest of what's virtually current. Look for this icon beside featured headlines under the "Latest News" heading to see which shirts are available for mail-order. As I write this, the most intriguing t-shirt available reads "Colossal squid has soccer-ball eyes". Oh yes, we'll be watching this one for some time. Shirt selection differs from day to day.

http://us.cnn.com/

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Make no bones about it. New York's Brooklyn Brothers presents Fat Pig Chocolate and lays no claim to even attempting to make it sound better for you than it is. It IS chocolate. Mind you, it's organic and ya, it's wrapped like THAT, so guilt levels will remain low in relation to the pleasure metre reading of your body's other senses. Available for mail order.

Fat Pig Site

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