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If you do it right, your honeymoon is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Unless you get remarried, although that’s probably not something you’re planning on during the first honeymoon. We’ve seen the all-you-can-eat-buffet cruises and the “We took a tour of the Grand Canyon!” Vegas trips, but what about the stuff for…
At first glance, it looks like May is going to be a great month for Netflix subscribers. We’re getting new seasons of both House of Cards and Master of None, some excellent sci-fi and fight movies, some educational documentaries, etc. But when we look at what’s leaving, we can’t help…
When push comes to shove, we really love Instagram because it allows us to connect with people and faces we’d ordinarily miss out on—like gorgeous models. This roundup is a win-win for everyone involved. It’s a win for us because we got to spend hours scouring the Internet looking for…
Chili cook-off season is in full swing (although if you’re asking us, every season is chili cook-off season), and there’s only one thing we love more than a solid chili recipe: a solid Crock-Pot chili recipe. The set-it-and-forget-it style of cooking slow cookers are known and loved for works perfectly with…
Man, jobs can be tough. It feels like we’ll sometimes spend entire days on end without seeing a ray of sunshine because we’ve got our noses to the grindstone and our brains at warp speed. But, as we’re sure some of you can relate, sometimes we get stuck. We just…
If there are two things we love talking about—well, aside from bourbon, travel, fast cars and good style—it’s DIY projects and podcasts. Give us an opportunity to talk about both in one article and we’ll damn near shoot straight out of our chairs. Luckily, that’s what’s on the menu for…
Being cooped up inside all day can weigh on one’s mood, and finding a balance between keeping things productive and professional and avoiding the sterility of a doctor’s office can be tough. Posters, photographs, calendars, coffee mugs, all are great ways to personalize your cube or desk, and a few…
Netflix is usually a grab bag of bad and good. Some months we see an influx of excellent classic films we could watch over and over. Other months we’re bombarded with a wonderful array of their new original content. And of course, while we say hello to all the new…
The Amazon Prime Video catalog is growing by the month, and not only because a ton of old movies are jumping into the public domain. They’re getting their hands on Oscar and Emmy winners, along with an ever increasing selection of original programming. If you don’t have Amazon, now may…
It doesn’t matter whether you’ve been shooting photos for 10 years or 10 minutes, or whether you’re a commercial studio photographer or a wedding photographer. It doesn’t matter whether you shoot with a full-frame DSLR, an old Leica, or some weird rig whose name you can’t pronounce that you found…
Google search may very well be one of the most critically important inventions of all time. We don’t know about you, but we use it daily in our lives to answer all the questions we can’t, like “How spell bureaucracy?” or “How cook crystal meth?” Over the years, Google has…
People everywhere are wising up to the idea of all-metal water bottles, and quite frankly, it’s about time. They’re super durable and long lasting, they’re easier on the environment, and they usually don’t contain any hazardous chemicals or BPA found in normal water bottles or other plastics. If you’re an…
Here at Cool Material, we’re huge fans of the culinary arts, and it definitely shows in the material we cover. We’ve done stories on some of our favorite cookbooks, roundups of the world’s best kitchen tools… Hell, we even put out a whole story about cast-iron skillets. We love food, we…
We’re going to go ahead and call it now: March will be chalked up as a “draw” for Netflix subscribers. We’re losing a lot: The first three Jaws films, Animal House, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and Iron Man are all among the casualties. But we’re also gaining quite a…
Poker has always been a game of chance and skill that has managed to entice people from all walks of life—everyone from wealthy businessmen to back-alley hustlers—to its tables. Endless American folk tales discuss cowboys and Wild West bandits battling it out in high-stakes games that eventually led to shoot…
