Friends,
Now that you’ve been enjoying the World Cup for about a week, I presume that you’ve been caught up in all of the Vuvuzela hysteria. Are the plastic trumpets too annoying? Should they be banned? Are they simply part of African culture?
Thankfully, German geeks have stepped up to help. Via , a German “hacker” (*cough*) has isolated the frequencies occupied by the Vuvuzela on television broadcasts and has devised a scheme to clamp down on those frequencies in real time. While this gives one a quieter game, I’m not sure I’d want it. My ears had been stuffed up for a couple weeks, finally clearing last evening and this morning I’ve realized that this world is a very noisy place.
I’ll give the Vuvuzelas another chance during today’s South Africa vs. Uruguay game. If it doesn’t work out though, I might be inclined to hang some ugly audio equipment on the teevee in the breakroom.
– bob