President Bush believes his favorite painting shows the struggles of a Methodist evangelical, but Horton digs up its original context and reveals the artist's intent.

Damn, the amazing magazine Punk Planet is joining Stay Free! on that great coffee table in the sky. It makes me really sad to see these indie magazines fold.

Lunch over IP points to research that suggests companies are peaking when they appear on the covers of business magazines.

PR maven Steve Rubel admitted on Twitter that his free copies of PC Magazine go right in the trash, leading to a PR brouhaha.

It's a pity Carrie has decided to end publication of her venerable 'zine. It was really special, and one of these days all of the cool indie magazines will be gone.

It's nice to see Might, which made me the man I am today, crack the top twenty.

It's a pity this magazine is folding, but I always wondered how the big-budget free publication stayed afloat.

Paul Schmelzer discusses the changes in ownership and format of the once-and-present Utne Reader. I imagine most digest publications like Utne have struggled in the age of blogs and news aggregators.

I didn't realize there were enough .pdf magazines to merit a portal devoted to the projects. I guess they're like podcasts for print designers and 'zinesters, or maybe it's just a German thing.

Chris Anderson reports on the financial collapse of IPA, a distributor of mid-level independent magazines.

Chrysler's interactive ads that accompany Time's "Person of the Year" puff piece start with the text "You might not be Time person of the year." oops.

I keep meaning to post this video art magazine from the 1970s. Now I have.

A gag cover to put on issues of conservative opinion journal The Weekly Standard. It's interesting to see a mainstream publication engage in culture-jamming like this.

WIred magazine has uploaded a story about Wiki's to a wiki hosted by Socialtext and invites readers to edit it, which will run in a future issue – if it's not a disaster.

To commemorate its 150th anniversary, the magazine has uploaded several articles about emerging technologies by famous writers, including Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" and piece by Mark Twain about the telephone.

Here's a blog post that compares the fact-checking processes between mass-circulation magazines and Wikipedia. In my experience, fact-checking at trade magazines is not as stringent, and I understand that newspapers are similarly loose.

I lost my enthusiasm for Adbusters almost as soon as I subscribed, but this might be an interesting opportunity for a reader or two.

It struck me as goofy when Wired News was spun off from the magazine. I hope the two outlets develop a shared editorial direction.