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Architecture firm Ideabox has partnered with Ikea to create a fully furnished prefab house big enough for one or two people.

All brogrammers must die.

Square now offers Register, a new iPad-based point of sale system for retail merchants who use its card reader.

A parent at a girl’s hockey game in Massachusetts was ejected when he was caught flashing a laser pointer into the eyes of the opposing team’s goalie.

Peter offers tech journos advice for what to write about in the absence of real news.

ThisIsWhyImBroke:

A site run by a few geeky ladies and gentlemen who partake in way too much internet window shopping. As such, our staff has a wide array of cool, fun, useful, and unique products that we showcase on our website.

This web site has way too many things that make you go, “Oh! I’d love to have one of those!” Check out the transparent Pool Table! Thanks to @Chiron1 for the heads up.

Wired:

When it comes to computer security, Jeremiah Grossman, Chief Technology Officer at security consultancy White Hat Security, is paranoid — and for good reason. He’s seen what the bad guys can do. But when he met with Wired at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, he said something surprising: He doesn’t use antivirus software.As it turns out, many of his security-minded peers don’t use it either. The reason: If someone is going to try and attack them, they’re likely to use a new technique, one that most antivirus products will miss. “If you asked the average security expert whether they use antivirus or not,” Grossman says “a significant proportion of them do not.”

Mat Honan for Gizmodo: The Windows 8 consumer preview is utterly delightful. But I have a huge suspicion that by the time it ships, it could completely suck. And that’s because the people who make the machines on which it … Continued

It is far too easy to emotionally default to negativity on the Internet. Whether it’s fueled by anti-social behavior, a perceived intrusion upon one’s curated garden of content and opinion, or some sort of basic personal distaste, we are all too frequently treated to a stinging assault on a person or corporate entity on Twitter and the like.

I’ve been guilty of this from time to time.

Square’s payment services are going to be tested out in a small pilot program in New York City taxicabs.

Dave Eisenberg for BostInno: Terrafugia, based in Woburn [MA] and founded in 2006 by MIT trained aeronautical engineers will debut the Transition® Roadable Aircraft (that’s a street legal airplane to my plebeian friends) at the 2012 New York International Auto … Continued

A new Macworld.com feature will have you taking better pictures of your food.

The Verge:

The self-titled Lytro camera, a digital camera that neither looks nor operates like any camera you’ve ever seen: it measures megarays instead of megapixels, captures light fields instead of light, and lets you focus your pictures after you’ve taken them.We’ve been following the Lytro since its inception, and there’s absolutely no doubt that the camera represents a huge technological achievement, but will you be ditching your DSLR for a Lytro, or even your point-and-shoot? Read the full review to find out.

Interesting stuff from Jason Kottke.

Animal:

The Department of Homeland Security monitors updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports.

So – don’t use those words.

Buzzfeed:

It’s 2012. And it seems like something much, much worse than what the Mayans predicted is coming—and much sooner than you’d think. These are the twenty places you definitely want to see before it’s all over on March 6, 2012.

I’ve been to three of these and would like to get to at least three more. Won’t make it before March 6th though.

Wired Science:

The moon, Venus, and Jupiter — the three brightest objects in the night sky — will be putting on a dazzling celestial show shortly after sunset both Feb. 25 and 26, coming together in a tight triangle. With any luck, you might also spot tiny Mercury down near the horizon just as the sun goes down.People all over the world can check out the performance just by stepping outside and looking westward. If snowstorms or general chilliness drive you inside, you can always watch the spectacular event live on the Slooh Space Camera feed, starting both nights at 6:30 p.m. PST.

ESPN:

As the No. 10 Chevrolet rolled to a stop Thursday, the front end destroyed after a horrific impact with the inside retaining wall, Danica Patrick let her crew know she was all right.She did it with three simple words, two of which would make many blush.

The Daytona 500 is this weekend and this video reminds you of not only how dangerous the race is but also, paradoxically, how safe it is.

Michael Hiltzik for the LA Times:

Technology news bloggers’ curious habit of accepting investments from the very people they’re presumed to be covering objectively blew up last week over what might be termed the Path Affair.

EFF:

If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

Hat tip to Daring Fireball.

Dell says it has nothing to do with the “fartographer” video, but it’s being a good sport about it.

Gizmodo:

Jeb Corliss hit the side of Table Mountain while attempting a wingsuit jump. Now, the footage from the cameras mounted to his helmet is available—and it looks terrifying.

I love these wingsuit videos but this guy was asking for trouble “flying” so low, trying to grab the balloons!

Dell is taking “Think Different” to a whole new level.