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Did I Just Say That Out Loud: He does this a lot. His internal yellow caption box monologue is often 'broken', usually without his realizing it, meaning everyone else on the page can hear what he thinks. Sometimes, he only thinks he's doing an internal monologue, when he's really talking out loud. Also, he tends to have very disturbing dreams, plus a habit of sleeptalking just before he wakes up, creating very embarrassing moments for everyone involved.
Deadpool: No, G.I.Joe, don't do that to Barbie… It's so very, very, wrong… — Uhm… I wasn't dreaming anything too embarrassing, wasn't I?
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If you spend any percentage of your time doing web design or development, Firebug is the single must-have extension that you cannot live without. It's not just that it lets you debug Javascript, but it allows you to edit the page HTML and CSS on the fly, and even has extensions like YSlow and Page Speed to help keep your web site nice and speedy. Since you really wouldn't want to have the hefty Firebug extension running all the time, it's best to create a new profile specifically for web development.
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We start by finding our man Foyle near-death in a starship that has been cast adrift in space. As this not-too-bright crewman struggles to survive, a ship approaches that could help him. However, it doesn't. Instead, it flies away. The rest of the book consists of Foyle's angry, obsessed quest to get revenge upon that ship and the people who own it. We encounter telepathy and "jaunting" (instantaneous travel through the power of the mind–a mixture of telepathy with a Star Trek transporter). We find robber barons, three-ring circuses, violence. Bester does not apologize for the violence in his story (unlike some fiction today), he is writing a straight adventure story, with all the pitfalls and danger and violence that come with it. This is "guys' sci-fi" writ large. If the ending had been resolved a little more realistically, it would have been perfect. That said, buy it anyway.
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At the start of this violent and intense noir and espionage hybrid from Swierczynski (The Blonde), David Murphy, the CEO of a Philadelphia financial company, summons his seven staffers for an important Saturday meeting, where he informs them that the business is being shut down, and that unfortunately he has to kill them all. Every escape route from the 36th-floor office has been sealed off or rigged with lethal sarin gas. Suddenly, mousy Molly Lewis pulls out a gun and puts a slug in Murphy's head.
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