Look, it's not that we think there are a lot of skeptics out there in the AtAT viewing audience. After all, it takes a certain amount of paranoia open-mindedness to endure endless blather about Bill Gates mind control conspiracies and ninja death attacks. It takes a lot more to consider such blather entertaining enough to keep from clicking to another channel. And then there are those of you faithful viewers who tune in day after day, many of whom probably wouldn't be able to pass a psychiatric screening to get a job sorting mail at the local postal facility (and why would you want to? They're all out to get you anyway). We're grateful to you all, truly.

But we admit, we sense a pervasive aura of "aw, c'mon now" whenever we've broached the subject of an Apple-Disney connection. We certainly weren't the first; Apple Recon has been going on about a possible Disney buyout of Apple for a long time now. Nothing overt has really materialized between the two companies, short of the eventual release of Disney Blast for the Mac, but the signs of a behind-the-scenes alliance (or takeover?) are there, if you know where to look. Faithful viewer Derek Fakehany knows where to look. After all, there's a reason that Apple changed the name of the new Find File utility in Mac OS 8.5 to "Sherlock;" it was obviously someone's entreaty to grab a magnifying glass and dig deeper. So Derek did. He cruised the web sites, examining screen shots of Apple's cool new search tool, when he finally "noticed something rather peculiar."

Don't you agree with Derek that the new cursor used to click on found web links seems "awfully familiar?" Isn't it, in fact, quite easily recognizable as the gloved hand of a particularly famous overgrown rodent with hypnotically round aural appendages? Every single person we showed it to (completely out of context, mind you) immediately identified the hand in the icon as belonging to Mickey Mouse. If that's not a sign of pervasive secret Disney control inside One Infinite Loop, we don't know what is. Is it some brave software engineer's cry for help? As Derek says, "looks like the infiltration of Apple has begun." Indeed.