i'm not totally dense: Apple Event support for SOAP and XML-RPC is client-side-only. in other words, you can only generate requests for web services. so says everything i've seen, and (according to Dave Winer) so says Robb Beal.

what's mlife? according to a story on Internet.com, it's just AT&T Wireless, which is very mlame.

the New York Times has uncovered tigers roaming the New York region:

Experts say there are about 10,000 privately owned tigers in the United States, dwarfing the 200 or so kept by zoos for display and species propagation.

incidentally, that's also more than live in the wild in Asia.

the Reg is concerned that Napster (an "independent" partner of media giant Bertelsmann), desperate to get back to business, might not take advantage of the opportunity to dig into the issue of whether the labels' copyright extends to the digital world.

would we be any further along if companies like Napster had digital copyright to music? where are the fully-recouped artists (and their sub-industry of managers, lawyers, and agents) in this? Metallica -- i'm looking at you.

the AP has a story about Microsoft reimbursing the states for the legal costs of pursuing antitrust action.

Global Crossing has a giant phone bill. Reuters is reporting that the defunct telco owes struggling carrier equipment maker Lucent $123 million.

curiously, Global Crossing's bankruptcy filing only shows a $31 million debt to Lucent. probably just an accounting error.