About REST

It was a joke when my boss asked me how much I knew about REST, I almost told him about how to have a rest, you know, I nearly made up a joke on REST. I search it in google at first, my god, It's not what I thought about exactly. It stands for Representational State Transfer, a Web Architectural Style for distributed hypermedia system. I found some useful materials on the topic, see links as below,

Details of REST on Dr. Roy Thomas Fielding's website : http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
I came across an involved acticles on javaeye as well in recent, to see contents : http://www.iteye.com/topic/137334
A video stuff to know REST in effect:http://www.iteye.com/topic/137334

REST? I am new to pay attention to it, however, that will be part of my job to implement our planform according this technology.(Is it a technology? ) Let's study and discuss on it together.