This is a well done edit of the bit in Empire where Darth Vader opens his clamshell control center. The scenes have been scrubbed together to make it look like Vader is toying with his general, opening and closing the clamshell every time the general tries to speak.

Do you work in a non-internet-friendly office? If so, you might be interested in using WorkFRIENDLY. The site will take any URL that you are interested in visiting and reformat it to look like a Microsoft Word document. This way you can stay up to date on all those blogs or news sites without making it blatantly obvious that you are surfing instead of working. There is even a “boss key” panic button that will change the page to a document about time management: useful for any over-the-shoulder readers that might be passing by your desk.

Thom Yorke is planning on realeasing Harrowdown Hill from his recent album The Eraser as a single this month and to help promote it the video has been put on You Tube. From the Pitchfork writeup:

“The number, named after the Oxfordshire location where the body of scientist Dr. David Kelly was discovered in 2003, is teamed with an eerily beautiful video that zones in on bird imagery (including bird’s eye views of both the countryside and city) and hazy war/riot footage. In a particularly interesting scene (”It was a slippery, slippery, slippery slope. I feel me slipping in an out of consciousness”), Yorke dives underwater, releasing air and letting go in an implied drowning.”