To the dismay of many and the joy of some, the horn-like drone of the vuvuzelas served as the soundtrack to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The Af...
Sporting events have one thing in common with concerts: A few douchebag fans can ruin everything. They're running onto the field, they're blowing some...
As we bid farewell to another year, some pop culture critics are doing more than reflecting on trends gone by -- they're speculating about what it all means. Here, the best explanations.
Twitter recently unleashed a list of 2010's top trends, which reflect the topics that dominated the 25 billion tweets sent this year. Twitter defi...
AUSTIN, Texas November 15, 2010 -- The Global Language Monitor has announced that Spillcam is the Top Word, Anger and Rage the Top Phrase and Chinese ...
From a monotone musical instrument's rise to global stardom to one very teed-off Jet Blue employee, 2010 was certainly a year chock-full of stories that made us say "whoa!"
Google has added an awesome little Easter Egg to the service when one surfs through maps of South Africa: a vuvuzela clutched in peg man's hot little ...
WIMBLEDON, England — Quiet, please. Organizers are making sure there will be no racket from vuvuzelas at the Wimbledon tennis championships....
World Cup organizers are considering a vuvuzela ban at World Cup 2010. What's the vuvuzela, and why ban it? The vuvuzela is the horn responsible for t...
The egregious mistakes made by World Cup field officials are far more insufferable than the incessant vuvuzelas. These kinds of errors, made while the world is watching, can be both embarrassing and dangerous.
The South African researchers found the noise in the stadium "reached dangerously high levels," averaging 131 decibels but up to 144 decibels. At thes...
As if car bombs and train accidents weren't enough to disturb New Yorkers, now we have to deal with this Vuvuzela Guy. Maybe the plastic horn is real...
If you've seen any World Cup match so far - or for that matter know anyone with a TV - you've heard the sound: BZZZZZZZZZZ. It's awful. And it never s...
Don't worry Yankees fans, your ears are safe. While the vuvuzela -- those plastic horns that sound like a swarm of bees-- has quickly become the scou...
What's the latest buzz about the FIFA World Cup? It's more of a buzzing sound, and it's coming from thousands of soccer enthusiasts blowing on their v...
Noting how viewers of the World Cup love the song of the vuvuzela, FIFA has decided that future tournaments will encourage fans of the host nation to ...
We may be helpless in the face of the oil that's spilling into the Gulf of Mexico but, by God, if you are as sick as I am of hearing the terrifying "D...
If you've watched any matches of World Cup 2010, you've surely heard it: an ongoing buzzing noise filling the stadium. What is that buzzing sound? ...
Despite some legitimate criticisms of the horns, the vuvuzela is all about South African pride. It has become a huge part of the country's identity and it has united a people. It's not time to silence the noisemaker.
