But the profusion of ultra-specific real estate blogs that followed in Steele's wake show he'd only scratched the surface.

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The room erupted and the world learned we'd just made it to the surface of Mars.

BBC: Space - the new rock and roll

Scratch the surface, and you'd get the real story: 'I'm a lawyer, but I've always wanted to be X' -- invariably, it was some passion left over from childhood.

CNN: Try out 'dream job' before you jump

I'd throw my watch away if I could hold the lunar surface.

NPR: BPP Jukebox: Blues Traveler

Best of all, rbAPPmit is available for download as well speak in the source link below, but we'd probably wait for the (presumably thick) user guide to surface before diving in headfirst.

ENGADGET: MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts

The reason why that's exciting, is one of the properties we'd like to have on a habitable planet is liquid water on the surface.

BBC: Tiniest extrasolar planet found

They'd balance a spoon-shaped piece of magnetic rock on any flat surface, and since it was magnetic, the handle would swivel to align itself with the Earth's magnetic poles.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In May this year at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference in California Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer unveiled "Surface".

CNN: In touch with the digital age

As we were leaving the museum through the Rose Center for Earth and Space, past stunning images of the Apollo astronauts working on the surface of the moon, I asked her, for the record, why she'd never felt the urge to visit before.

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