Last week, the company released the latest version of its desktop operating system to the public. In keeping with tradition of naming major releases after big cats, the new OS X, version 10.8, is called Mountain Lion.

Last year’s release of Lion began to leak some features from iOS, the software running on iPhone and iPad, across to the computer. But Lion was criticized as slow, and some of the features half baked. And while Lion was a little sluggish, Mountain Lion screams. It is, in every sense, a refinement, the fulfillment of the idea of bringing the best of both worlds to the Mac experience.

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“200 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”
-HST on the United States of America, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

Hunter would have been 75 years old  this month. Don’t dishonor his memory by being the guy who doesn’t know Hunter S. Thompson and his work. Johnny Depp may do a worthwhile impression of The Good Doctor, but Terry Gilliam’s movie is no substitute for experiencing this singularly prized voice of American counterculture in its original medium. Few writers can become so eloquently and magnificently pissed off as Hunter Thompson, fewer are celebrated for it. He lived large, without compromise, though not without consequence. It’s a dying art that comes to life in his writing. Here’s a brief introduction to one of the most caustic, controversial, and uncomfortably honest writers in American history – a must-read for the modern man.

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Every week here at The Dignified Devil, we spend a lot of time thinking about how we can help the modern man survive the modern world. This week of course is no different. Today we explore the apps, the tools, the gadgets and the books that will enlighten the modern man as he navigates his way through his week. These are the things that are worth a man’s time, money, attention and space in his Junk Drawer.

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