Short Stack

Computers: Threat or menace?
A researcher in Australia says children are suffering repetitive stress injuries more than they used to—a result of being the first generation raised with computers at school and in the home. One teen complained that the computer gave her “a muscular pain and a nuisance pain.” Twenty years ago, that was called algebra.

HarvardNet, dear HarvardNet
Regional service provider HarvardNet has been dealing with a site from a disgruntled ex-employee. They sued, then dropped the suit. Now thousands more people know the URL—including HarvardNet founder Bill Southworth and former president and COO Brent Paine, who have posted letters on the site complaining about the ISP’s current management.

We’re not publicizing the site. But don’t forget to register those “sucks.com” domain names, folks.

Too many Web hits to the head
To promote his new Web site, Giovanni Lemmi climbed 26 stories up the Wells Fargo building in downtown L.A. trailing a banner with his Web address. A rock climber, Lemmi uses the Web site to sell calendars, T-shirts and coffee mugs with pictures of him sitting on a toilet in various locations. Your option whether or not to look up.