Thanks so much for saying what needed to be said :)!
David Zülke has a very good talk about REST that he's holding at conferences around the world regularly: http://www.slideshare.net/Wombert/designing-http-interfaces-....
David Zülke has a very good talk about REST that he's holding at conferences around the world regularly: http://www.slideshare.net/Wombert/designing-http-interfaces-....
It is a good presentation and hits on many good points but also makes the REST model a little too narrow for most client/consumer usage today easily.