The Hinterland
Rants from the hinterland. Denver writer and pretend anthropologist Dave Cullen's take on the world.

Monday, October 17, 2005


What a great magazine

Don't you just love the Times Magazine?

I have subscriptions to about six different magazines and I can't even bring myself to flip through them most months. (A friend picked a copy of Vanity Fair off the coffee table last week and sniffed all the perfume ads. That's the most anyone has gotten out of it in awhile.)

But the Times--as dry as I find the newspaper (with brilliant exceptions here and there), that magazine has some incredible writing week in, week out.

And interesting stories. Yesterday afternoon and this morning, I lolled my way through the wonderful Chasing Ground, and just got started on just got started on Meet the Life Hackers, which may end up being even more relevant to my life.

Rather than try to resummarize, I'll just give you the teasers directly from the (online) magazine:

 

Chasing Ground:

Whether or not there's a real-estate bubble hardly matters for a large company like Toll Brothers. The mega-developer is hungrily buying up land for its market-tested luxury homes and transforming the landscape of America's haves.

Meet the Life Hackers:

Can anyone find a way to make your constantly beeping and dinging computer leave you alone and let you work? Inside the nascent field of interruption science.
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