Code 3 response: A pizzeria in Mukilteo uses a surplus 1996 ambulance for deliveries, with lights and sirens alerting customers when their pies have arrived.
A pizza warmer now occupies the place where patients used to go, so the ambulance can’t also give you a ride to the hospital if you eat a few too many slices.
Remote control: Automakers are trying to figure out how to thwart hackers who can commandeer today’s computer-laden cars and pop the trunk, start the windshield wipers and even kill the engine.
On one hand, this is scary. On the other hand, it could be a force for good, if hackers could somehow force left-lane campers on I-5 north of Island Crossing to obey the law and move right.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1984, many of Britain’s leading pop stars gathered to record the song “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
History does not indicate whether Ethiopian Orthodox Christians recorded their own song in response, titled “Do They Know We Celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7?”
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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