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9 Great Websites Every Guy Should Know
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9 Great Websites Every Guy Should Know

The Cool Material team spends a lot of time working to be the best resource for stuff guys want. A lot goes into curating the best of the internet, the best whiskeys every guy needs to know, the top watches in every price range, the coolest vintage rides, and the…

Web’s Best: Steak Sandwiches
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Web’s Best: Steak Sandwiches

You don't need to take sides in the Pat's vs. Geno's war or know what "wiz wit" means to appreciate a good steak sandwich. In fact, you don't even have to make anything remotely similar to what you'd get on the streets of Philly. A great steak sandwich is easy…

12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets
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12 Bad-Ass Chess Sets

The game of chess is a timeless classic, challenging players from 6th century India all the way up to today. We can’t tell you how much it’s changed in those 1500 years, but we can tell you modern people are putting their own spin on it. They’re changing up pieces,…

The Web’s Best Recipes With Bacon

Seeing as how just about every recipe you come across these days includes bacon in one way or another, composing this list was a bit of a challenge. An awesomely delicious challenge, but still a challenge. After lots of searching, cooking and sampling, we can proudly say that these are…

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Menno Aden Room Portraits

Getting a bird’s eye view can result in some seriously cool Instagram pictures. If you’re anything like artist Menno Aden, though, that isn’t anywhere near interesting enough. For his Room Portraits, Aden mounted a camera on the ceiling of a bunch of different rooms and took top down pictures that put…

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The 10 Best Vehicles To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse

We'd advise you to start saving for one of these rides now, but let's be honest, by the time you could afford most on the list it would be too late (what with the zombie apocalypse here and all). If you find yourself searching for the ideal vehicle to keep…

10 Best Vehicles To Survive The Zombie Apocalypse
Jonathan Kambouris “Beer Garden”

Beer is art. The cans and bottles don’t design themselves. The marketing campaigns don’t come out of nowhere (frogs and horses have never been the same since Budweiser). Most importantly, there’s the liquid gold contained within its aluminum or glass confines. But beer AS art is kind of a tougher…

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18 Father’s Day Cards You Won’t Find at Hallmark

Greeting cards aren’t a man’s game. We have a hard time being all sticky sweet and conveying our “feelings.” It gets doubly hard when you’re giving that card to your pops. Normally, instead of writing a note inside a card, we just crack a beer with our old man and…

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