I hate those stickers with a passion (well, that’s an exaggeration, they don’t really figure much in my life), so the idea of “etching data onto the skin of the fruit itself”:http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/19/tattooed_fruit_en_ro.html with a laser is neat. I read about this in the NY Times this morning, and laughed out loud when the article mentioned, in passing, how advertising could be included because, after all, there _is_ plenty of spare space on the skin of any given fruit. I’m picturing a nectarine with abstract spiral designs around the outside, though… and my mouth is watering, probably because I’m picturing a juicy nectarine and for no other reason. In fact I’m going to have one right now. There’s an art to taking those stickers off, by the way.