Weekend Special - Sautéed Cloves 29 January 2006

Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates caused a stir when he announced at the recent economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, that "within the next six-months, Microsoft will roll out their own Wireless Davos Conference", saying it will be bundled with the company's Internet Explorer














The FBI announced this week a new attack of cybercrime, targeting senior citizens. When clicking on a link, supposedly about the new perscription drug plan, a 3D, animated program comes on, pointing a gun at the senior computer users, forcing them to type in their bank account numbers, which are then quickly cleaned out.

The FBI said as reports flood in, that they have few leads in the case, but that a number of pharmaceutical companies and senior Bush Administration officials, including the White House, are "persons-off-interest"


















The Walt Disney Company announced that, as soon as their purchase of Pixar is completed, they plan on entering the lucrative "courtroom sketches" market


















The Federal Trade Commission is looking into Apple Computer and their new iPod, the "Portable iPod Electric Generator", following charges of unfair practices.

Apple's marketing information instructs users that "the more songs you download from iTunes, the more power your generator will have".

Industry analysts say that it takes "thousands-and-thousands of songs" just to get enough power to hear the songs

















The Dr. Phil show announced that an entire program will be devoted this week to the James Frey Memoir scandal, with Dr. Phil interviewing himself.

Producers for the show said that "Dr. Phil plans on getting to the truth of the story and will not shy away from asking himself the tough questions"















As reported last week by The Garlic, tensions between President Bush and the First Lady continue to surface.

Mrs. Bush, to protest her husband's Foreign Policy, wore "Hamas Green" at a public appearance this week.