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Darth Vader owns the No. 1 misquoted movie line.

Poor Darth Vader. It’s bad enough that he lost his wife in childbirth, fought with his son, and embraced the Dark Side of the Force. Now it turns out that we botch his most famous line. Fans mess up The Empire Strikes Back quote—“No, I am your father”—more than any other, according to a recent lovefilm.com survey. (We wrongly say, “Luke, I am your father.”) At least Vader’s in good company. We also misquote cinematic icons like Dirty Harry and Hannibal Lecter, too:

Top Misquoted Movie Lines…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Wrong: “Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
Right: “Magic Mirror on the wall…”

Dirty Harry

Wrong: “Do you feel lucky, punk?”
Right: “You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”

Casablanca

Wrong: “Play it again, Sam.”
Right: “Play it, Sam.”

Silence of the Lambs

Wrong: “Hello, Clarice.”
Right: “Good evening, Clarice.”

Star Trek Franchise

Wrong: “Beam me up, Scotty!”
Right: “Never used in film or TV series.

Gone With the Wind

Wrong: “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.”
Right: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

Field of Dreams

Wrong: “If you build it, they will come.”
Right: “If you build it, he will come.”

The Wizard of Oz

Wrong: “I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more, Toto.”
Right: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas any more.”

The Graduate

Wrong: “Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?”
Right: “Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me.”

Macworld is forever showing us how to smooth the Mac road we travel on. Now it’s creating startup disks from the SD card reader on new MacBookPro notebooks from Apple.

Thanks as always, Macworld!

Well, Apple has done it again by releasing its latest iPhone the iPhone 3G S. Powered by the iPhone OS 3.0 operating system, I guess this is supposed to be closer to what the iPhone was intended to be. I have the iPhone 3G, which has served me very well since I bought it as a Christmas Present for myself last year (also because I get no love from Apple or AT&T towards upgrading to the new one until March 2010). But I was glad to get the OS 3.0 upgrade. I mean, come on… upgrades are fun, right?

I guess it depends on who you ask because many folks seem to be losing patience with AT&T and their foot-dragging when it comes to implementing MMS and tethering. The phone can do it, but AT&T allegedly needs to perform a little magic on each individual account. Oh well… I’ll just have to wait I guess.

If you want to read more, check out Wired’s Gadget Lab piece by Brian X. Chen.

And it looks as though Chris Brown has copped a plea in his assault case that will keep him from serving any jail time. Naturally he’ll be keeping his distance from Rihanna, or else.

As a legal resident of Virginia, it is there he’ll face hard labor (yeah, right), as well as five years probation for felony assault. The cherry on top is enrolling in a counseling program for domestic violence. A violation of his probation would bring up to four years in prison. I imagine he’ll be able to do it standing on his head.

Just one of the many truths in Seth Godin’s The Myth of Big Salaries (It’s All Marketing):

After a million dollars or so in salary, the absolute amount that a person is paid has no real impact on their life. They can’t eat more meals in a day or wear more shoes. What matters to the manager is the relative amount. How much more would I make over there? Why does that company pay its CEO more than my company pays me?

A unique spin on what been spinning for a long time… straight talk about big salaries. And the timing couldn’t be better.

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