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Dublin, Ireland-based designers Mark Shanley Paddy Treacy of Mark + Paddy have created Sharp Suits, a clever project where they collected absurd feedback and quotes from advertising client and turned them into posters.

Ireland’s creative community got together to release a lot of pent up anger and sadness through the medium of the A3 poster, all in aid of Temple Street Children’s Hospital. The work was exhibited by the kind folks at The Little Green Café, Bar and Gallery. The exhibition ran from November 2nd – 7th.

images via Sharp Suits

via So Bad So Good, Alexandra Tyler

They meet more people in an afternoon than most of us do in a year. But what faux pas do human resources pros see again and again during the interview process? We picked the brains of two high-profile executives to find out what you definitely should and shouldn't say, as well as what they secretly think of your résumé.

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Let me play you the song of my people.

Shortly before his retirement at 60, Tatsuo Horiuchi picked up a copy of Microsoft Excel and started making art with it. His art does not look anything like you'd expect Excel art to look:

Tags: art   Excel   Tatsuo Horiuchi

Interval training, we've noted quite a few times, is a great way to get fit in a short amount of time. High-intensity interval training (HIIT), as the name suggests, is even more intense and effective for burning fat. Here's a complete guide to HIIT workouts in one handy infographic.

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Hello all!
It's summer break and I've been obsessed with quinoa and kale!
Here's a super easy salad with minimal cooking, perfect for those hot summer days.

Filling Summer Salads

Cooks faster than rice and has WAY more protein per a serving

Ingredients:
- 5 cups torn and washed kale
- 1 3/4 cups of cooked quinoa
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 2 1/2 tbs balsamic vinaigrette
- 1/2 diced tomatoes
- handful of salted roasted sunflower seeds      
- salt and pepper to taste
** Serves about 4

Curly Kale my latest obsession!

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a large salad bowl.
 ** Don't worry if you don't have all the ingredients, honestly I see the quinoa and kale as the foundation of the salad. The heat from the cooked quinoa softens the curly kale which makes it easier to eat and digest. For those that are new to eating kale and think that kale is the dinosaur of salad lettuce, it really is delicious and I encourage all of you to try it! Play around with different add-ins and dressings. If you feel like adding some chickpeas, chopped fruit, or a different dressing go for it. Bottom line: Use what you have and have fun with it.

Take care my lovelies and enjoy summer!
Xoxo,
~ T

If there's something that you can't cook inside a brownie, I don't know it. Becca of Becca Bakes baked Ferro Rocher chocolate and hazelnut candies inside super rich brownies. You can find her recipe at the link.

Link -via Foodbeast

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Most cats hate water, but this little guy looks just like me when I'm soaking in the tub...comfortable to the point where I refuse to budge, at least, untill the water gets cold again.

Via Laughing Squid

I’d like to talk about embarrassing things in life.

This has all come about because my husband just threw 7000 songs on to my computer and well, I can’t get over my ancient albums and how I’m now blasting Aaliyah’s One in Million every single chance I get. No really. Every single chance.

I mean, it’s one thing to be addicted to the TLC, Backstreet Boys and Kenny Loggins Pandora stations (semi eclectic taste?), but it’s an entirely different one to actually own all of the albums on now practically extinct CDs. Wait. What’s a CD? Will my future kids even know what one is? Probably not. My first one was Alanis Morrisette, by the way. What was yours?

Other gems I’ve rediscovered include but are not limited to the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack and Gloria Estefan. In addition to this, I nearly died when we were in the car on Sunday and a Melissa Ethridge song came on the OLDIES STATION. And I knew all the words.

I should have been born in 1955. I know.

The good news is that if you were born around that time, we would SO get along. Call me.

In other car related embarrassments, sometimes I talk to myself in the car. Yes. Like straight up turn off the music and talk. Discuss things with my own brain. Then I happen to drive by someone and I freak out, thinking that they KNOW that I’m talking to myself when in reality, they probably just think that I’m singing along to the radio. Which is kinda sorta embarrassing too, but whatever. But then when I’m mid-convo (with myself, mind you) I start to think ‘what if my phone just randomly called someone and they hear everything I’m saying?’ So then I have to obsessively check my phone, which I can’t, because it’s somewhere on the floor in order to stop myself from texting and driving. Are these (hashtag) first world problems? These are (hashtag) first world problems.

On the far-too-humiliating-things-to-admit-out-loud scale, I’m fairly thrilled that Magic Mike is now on HBO. Not for the obvious reasons but because… I kinda sorta maybe like the actual movie. As a whole.

Speaking of holes, I’m gonna go crawl into one and die now.

My last embarrassing fact of the day: I will fight you to the death over my thoughts on milk chocolate being a million times better than dark chocolate. It just IS. I love it so much. Sure, I force myself to eat dark chocolate when I “try to be healthy” or when I need to “justify the antioxidants” or when I “want to be cool” but let’s be serious: it’s nothing compared to milk chocolate. Which isn’t even real chocolate, right? That’s what you’re going to tell me next. What does that make me? Immature? Unsophisticated? The owner of an unrefined palette?

I don’t really care. It’s just what I like.

Oh but don’t get me wrong – if I’m dying for chocolate and my only option is dark, I’m obviously going to grab it because I have the sweetest teeth ever. I will sacrifice my taste buds all in the name for dessert. As long as it’s GOOD chocolate. But otherwise: milk all the way. Forever and ever.

My goal for the rest of 2013 is to stop being embarrassed about things. So I’m not embarrassed at all to tell you that I ate one of those obnoxiously large portions of chocolate mousse in one sitting. This chocolate mousse that I made with coconut milk instead of cream, then topped with coconut whipped cream.

It may have been one of the best nights of my life.

Can’t even take that.

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