I just discovered Growl because I live under a rock most days. Growl is a very cool notification system that displays messages from various applications on top of yer desktop. Best of all, it's 'scriptable and comes with some excellent pre-made scripts. Before I even looked in the "Extras" folder, I banged out a iTunes-is-now-playing Stay Open Idle script. But you know what? They've got one already! Growl is very easy to incorporate into your AppleScript projects. Heck, the thing I banged out took me a few minutes. Check out Growl. It's free!
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