Linkwad.

1. Citing the $2.5B breakup fee, this guy doesn’t believe Google’s buying Motorola for “defensive patents.” Very intriguing arguments, although I have no real way to evaluate them. Via @TimOReilly.
2. Ma Bell’s plan for AT&T-Mo LTE.
3. Serious Eats visits, enjoys Attman’s. FWIW, though, Baltimore no longer has a “corned beef row”–it’s basically just Attman’s and Lenny’s.
4. The BART cell-phone shutdown might be a harbinger of things to come in the US.

Linkwad.

1. ESPN to counter some of their football coverage’s reigning idiocy with a smarter QB stat.
2. A profile of Gramercy Tavern and Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer.
3. China’s escapades in government hacking.
4. A new cheap, fast HIV test.

Linkwad.

1. Living Classrooms and Corks to open a “seed-to-table” restaurant near the Living Classrooms site, via @Maryvale.
2. Two profiles of Republican Presidential candidates: the terrifying batshit Michele Bachmann and the relatively rational Jon Huntsman. Bachmann should scare the shit out of anyone with a brain–she’s got the crazy turned up to 11, but she hides it well, and lacks the flightiness of Sarah Palin.
3. I’ve seen these license plate readers on cop cars, but thought they were mounted radar guns. I don’t specifically have a problem with them–it’s information already displayed on your car.

Linkwad.

1. Chipotle now offers part-chicken chorizo. Sausage sacrilege!
2. Owning a house isn’t always a great idea.
3. Technology: an alternative to love.

Linkwad.

It’s been a pretty banal penultimate day on earth, so far:

1. Kindle books now outsell print versions.
2. HUD: the only government entity investigating Wall Street Fraud. HuffPo: the only news agency covering the story.
3. Shake Shack > In’n'Out > Five Guys. I haven’t yet gone to a Shake Shack, but it’s on my list of places to try.
4. “I truly have very little understanding of what I am doing.” Via Kottke.

I’m probably going to spend the (maybe last one ever) evening playing L.A. Noire.