On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:17 -0600, Brock Noland wrote:
> I believe Gnome has a stick note applet, I don't have my Ubuntu box in
> front of me to confirm.
> 
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_GNOME/Sticky_notes
> 
The application you refer to is called tomboy and is installed by
default.