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Then I caught a cab back to the city center. The moment we left the temple, we struck gridlock on Kyoto's narrow streets. As we crawled toward the train station, I had ample time to look at the garish neon signs that seemed to sprout from every rooftop, transforming the scenery even as they spent energy. It was a reminder that while Kyoto embodies the aspirations of that famous protocol, it is still a modern city, with all the energy, cars and carbon that implies...
...midnight stroke at your New Year's Eve party, between champagne swigs and kisses, you might have glanced at the TV image of Times Square: a million people celebrating in a neon-illuminated swirl of confetti, as if God had sent a pretty blizzard right...
...even if he did end up being the loser at Olympus fashion week—he definitely wins the “most unnecessarily literalist” award. His “Street Safari” collection actually featured standard safari gear, like cargo pants and jumpsuits, in neon “street” colors. Besides the general ugliness of the clothes, the collection blatantly ignored the fact that almost all the settings that could reasonably allow the wearing of safari items—going on safaris, for instance—also make the wearing of bright colors unwise...
...Zero Arrow Theatre, a venue that, with its neon sign and clean hallways, hardly resembles a cellar, Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione—better known as The Dresden Dolls—are going for a similar effect...
Last month TIME wrote about soldiers and Marines in Iraq requesting an unusual life-saving item in their care packages sent from home: Silly String. It seems that the neon plastic party streamers sprayed into an open doorway before a building search or across a darkened room can help detect nearly invisible trip wires attached to bombs and boobytraps. The old methods to detect trip wires - sweeping the space with a metal grappling hook or getting close enough for a visual inspection - just aren't as safe, Marines discovered...