(Photo: Cosmos Mag)

It costs $35 million to send an HD video via text while roaming on AT&T. Not a bad deal. [Ryan Kearny]

New Yorkers are surprisingly polite on Twitter. [NBC]

"Have you heard that early Groupon investors are bailing on the company? Well, some of them. Maybe less than half. But one of them is a big name, so it must mean the entire Internet sector is screwed." [Fortune]

Is Google actually considering ditching its current patent system? [CNET]

Going up! Meet the dude who wants to eschew rockets in favor of elevators to space. [BBC]