And so it begins: with only six weeks left until the MacWorld for Super Mac Nerds, you couldn’t expect not to see some alleged peepshots of Apple’s annual-and-a-semi uber service packs updates to OS X. Over at the newly-created blog Trinity Rubicon, our secret-agent man has claimed to have actual screenshots of actual Mac OS 10-dot-actual-five (actually, he made no claims at all.)

There are three screenshots, which I will now describe to enlengthen the article. One shows what appears to be a .NET compatability layer, with Internet Explorer 7 running on the same desktop as a new, dark, and smooth Finder. The second shows a transition effect that for some reasoning reminds me of the opening of a James Bond movie. Last, but not least, the third screenshot shows the most exciting feature evar: a button that opens up a menu with a text field so you can manually input the path of a file in the Finder (you know, like Explorer.)

Deep Thought’s take: If you listen very closely, over the hum of your computer fan, you can hear the ever-so-soft sound of an Apple legal official clickity-clacking these pictures off the internet by way of legal threats and jargon-y buzzwords.

UPDATE: Fake=Very yes.