EPS: A Dangerous Fiction. Oversimplification is evil. The press, Washington, and even many investors don’t get it. [The Motley Fool]

Think Again: Yasir Arafat

HTTP Security and ASP.NET Web Services. Secure a Web service using a combination of features found in Microsoft IIS and Microsoft ASP.NET. [MSDN]

Unreal Championship update
[GameSpot]

U.S. Rule on Stem Cell Studies Lets Researchers Use New Lines. President Bush set limits on federal financing for human embryonic stem cell research, but researchers have found a way to go beyond his boundaries. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. [New York Times: Politics]

Microsoft’s media player beat goes on. The software maker is setting itself up as a one-man band for subscriptions and services based on its Windows Media technology as part of a highly anticipated upgrade due next month. [CNET News.com]

Windows Media Player will finally have crossfading. Yay! If they get a scalable media library, mabye I can stop hating myself for using it.

Microsoft Office Gets Analytical
Microsoft Tuesday launched a .Net Web service in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers and The Nasdaq Stock Market that will enable investors and analysts to access financial data stored on the Internet and analyze that data using Microsoft Office. 8/6/2002 [PCWorld.com]

The spreadsheet seems pretty cool.

.Net and the Emperor’s new clothes [ZdNews]
“Hegel on acid couldn’t be more impenetrable.”

Download Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0. Bring the power of XML Web services to Office XP with this new toolkit, which now supports SOAP 3.0 and complex data types. [MSDN]

Microsoft Promises More Disclosures. Microsoft will disclose more technical information than it ever has before about its Windows operating system to comply with the proposed antitrust settlement it reached last fall. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Politics]