Hey, snarky comments wouldn't be real snarky comments if they didn't occasionally come back to bite us in the ass. Does anyone remember last month when we mentioned that, at the height of our last Anya-induced marathon hiatus, AtAT's broadcasts had become even less frequent than updates by the Naked Mole Rat and Mac OS Rumors? Well, faithful viewer Ryan Mongold sure does-- and he also remembers this quote: "...all we need now is for the classic rumors format AppleInsider to rise phoenix-like from its only-a-forum-now grave and commence updating more often than us, at which point we'll just have to toss our sorry mortal coils under the wheels of a speeding laundry truck or something..." Gee, care to take a wild flailing stab at the newfound relevance of that statement?

That's right, kiddies, AppleInsider is back-- sort of. Loading the site's home page no longer redirects immediately to the Forums, and there's a whole slew of new(ish) articles that hadn't been there previously. Apparently AI has been bought out by SlapTech, a fledgling Mac news 'n' rumors site that just started dishing its dirt back in May, and all of the SlapTech articles have now been transferred into AI's content databases. (We linked to SlapTech once in July, when they were reporting the imminent arrival of iTunes for Windows-- which wasn't quite correct, but hey, they were right about .Mac, so they've already got a higher accuracy ratio than mandated by the International Mac Rumors Veracity Act of 1996.)

Still, our laundry-truck suicide pact was predicated not just on AppleInsider's return, but also on it being updated more often than we broadcast new episodes-- so we're not exactly doing deep knee bends at the curb just yet. We've actually been doing quite well with maintaining broadcast regularity, having missed just three non-holiday weekdays in the past four weeks. Granted, in order to maintain this schedule we've pretty much had to forgo sleep entirely and eventually our heads are going to catch fire from the inside, but until that happens, we'll just be drinking coffee from really big mugs and looking forward to mining plot twists from what we're sure will be AI's imminent flood of insidery goodness. Welcome back, fellas.