Ah, the day after Halloween... right now, millions of Americans are dragging themselves out of sugar-induced comas, tossing the jack-o-lanterns on the trash pile, and pondering the best method to get the toilet paper out of the trees. Hopefully those of you so geographically inclined enjoyed the holiday in the manner of your choosing. The AtAT staff, unsurprisingly, opted for a mellow evening watching the back-to-back Buffy Halloween episodes by blacklight while doling out Sweet-Tarts, Dum-Dums, and Twizzlers to the subset of the local populace shameless enough to don costumes and beg for candy. As for scares, pretty much the most frightening thing we saw all night was our ridiculous candy overstock, as a mere dozen or so kidlings worked up the courage to raid the AtAT compound. Despite our best efforts to dole out giant fistfuls of sugar to each sullen teen visitor, we've got a distressingly large mound of treats left in the bowl. (That doesn't sound scary to you? Then consider the fact that we're still eating leftover candy from last year's festivities. Aaaaiiieeeee!!)

Now, what we were hoping to encounter was something really scary, like a distressingly accurate Key Lime iBook costume. Ideally some enterprising young soul would have appeared at our door all dolled up as Apple's most radioactive product to date, and we could have been blinded and vaguely sickened at the agonizing glow thrown off by a giant Key Lime costume bathed in our hippy-trippy blacklight. Alas, it wasn't to be-- perhaps due in part to a lack of real-life models upon which to fashion a costume. According to MacMonkey, shipping delays of "a week or more" are casting Apple Store iBook customers into the frightening realm of the traditional "Where's My Order?" game-- which hopefully won't mutate into the truly terrifying "Ever-Extending Ship Date" phenomenon.

Right now, Key Lime iBook customers are being notified via email that their orders are expected to ship in "the first week of November," so currently there's no particular need to run screaming through the streets. Then again, perhaps it's frightening enough that there are enough people ordering Key Lime iBooks to trigger a supply problem and the resulting shipping delay. And there's also the lurking specter of Key Lime floor models showing up when Apple's brightest iBook surfaces at retail following the company's elimination of the "Apple Store Only" policy. Last but not least, there's the terrifying possibility that when we finally see Key Lime live and in person, we'll actually-- choke-- like it. Good lord, NO!!