This is pretty damn cool:

RIPPERS and burners with an eye for design have a new way to smarten their image. Disc writers that can print images onto the label sides of the discs will hit the market next month.

Burning movies, songs and images onto CDs and DVDs is easy, but labelling the discs is still a fiddly business. Writing on them with a felt-tip pen or chinagraph pencil is simple but looks scruffy. You can print an image onto a circular label with a normal printer and stick it to the disc, but these labels can come unstuck and jam in a disc drive. More recently, special printers that print directly onto a disc's label side have come onto the market, but the process isn't very user-friendly.

The new system, called LightScribe, aims to change that. It uses discs whose label sides are coated with a light-sensitive dye that darkens when exposed to the laser beam in a specially designed disc burner.

The initial system is only monochrome, but think how cool it would be to be able to make any image you like in PhotoShop and print it in as many colors as you like onto a CD with this system! That would truly bring affordable, professional production quality home to the amateur user. (Via Slashdot)

UPDATE: I just found out the hard way that putting links into the title of a post doesn't work so well. One would think that as long as the tags are properly nested, this wouldn't be a problem. However, when I put the link in the title (now removed), the link to the individual post in the Previous section only linked to the article I linked in the title, and not the post itself. Strange.