Developing world malware writers throw a sickie 
As seen on Google Earth Letters Does sending PCs to the devloping world fuel malware? That’s what Eugene Kaspersky said recently. We reckoned the potential benefits outweighed the dangers, but here are your thoughts:

ATV caps, bans possible 
If the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has its way, three-wheel all-terrain vehicles would be banned and tighter caps placed on adults who allow their children to ride four-wheel ATVs.

Tales in which the ancient urges are quite current 
Gary Amdahl’s Visigoth, which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, tells a handful of stories about individuals, as short-story collections generally do. But these have a strangely zeitgeisty feel. Two of the eight have first-person narrators who are never even named, and you wouldn’t be blamed for thinking that these “I’s” want to be representative of something bigger than themselves.

Area briefs: Garage sale/breakfast/car wash 0-5515 
HOPKINTON — A garage sale, car wash, pancake breakfast, plant sale and bake sale will be held Saturday, June 10, at First Congregational Church, 146 E. Main St., from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. All proceeds will help fund a teen mission trip to Costa Rica this summer.