Sci-Fi Hi-Fi - Blog Archive JSON is so hot right now!
http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/02/07/json-is-so-hot-right-now
"Awhile ago it dawned on me that JSON bears more than a passing resemblance to old-school NeXT plists, and that it would be pretty natural to write an NSDictionary category that could deserialize a JSON string into a Cocoa object graph."