Buzz

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A buzz can be a rapidly oscillating two-tone noise caused by vibration or other source, such as that produced by bees or wasps. It can also refer to a generally excited hubbub, or background noise - i.e. a crowd at a sports event can "buzz."

Buzz may also refer to:

Contents 1 Media 2 Technology 3 People 4 Fictional characters 5 Other 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] Media

• Buzz (game), a type of group word game
• Buzz (comic), a British comic that ran in the 1970s
• Buzz (TV series), a Canadian comedy television series
• Buzz (film), a 1998 Israeli film by Eli Cohen
• Buzz (album), a 2000 album by British pop group, Steps
• Buzz (Guardian album), a 1995 album from Christian rock band, Guardian
• Buzz (band), a Korean pop/punk/ballad band
• Buzz and the Flyers, a US neorockabilly band in the 1980s
• Buzz Out Loud, a podcast produced by CNET starring Molly Wood and Tom Merritt
• Da Buzz, a Swedish pop music group
• Buzz!, a series of quiz video games
• Buzz (Keller Williams album), a 1996 album by Keller Williams
• Buzz (Christian magazine), a British Christian magazine founded in the 1970s.
• The Buzz, from the Highlander series and comic. It describes the mutual feeling between immortals, when they are close to each other.
• Buzz the cat, who catches lots of mices - eh?

[edit] Technology

• Jeskola Buzz, a modular software music studio environment
• Aeroelasticity or Flutter
• Yahoo! Buzz, a community launched by Yahoo! that publishes user posted news stories

[edit] People

• Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), American pilot and astronaut, second person to set foot on the Moon
• George Beurling (1921–1948), Canadian World War II fighter pilot nicknamed "Buzz"
• Buzz Hargrove (born 1944), National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union
• Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
• Buzz Osborne (born 1964), guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, founding member of The Melvins
• J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner (born 1967), American forensic psychologist and journalist
• Buzz, a host of the American children's television series ZOOM
• Buzz, a small time entrepreneur who developed her circus skills in "Warehouse Circus" and from the "National Youth Training Project" at "The Flying Fruit Fly Circus" and then moving to "Women's Circus". She specialises in Manipulation skills, but her passion is teaching the art of expression.

[edit] Fictional characters

• Buzz (mascot), mascot of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
• Buzz Lightyear, from the Toy Story animated movies
• Buzzbee, official mascot of the breakfast cereal Honey Nut Cheerios
• Buzz, from the Donkey Kong video game series
• Buzz Buzz, from the Super Nintendo game EarthBound
• Buzz, a Neopet from an online virtual pet site
• Buzz McCallister, from the Home Alone movie trilogy
• Buzz Buzzard, nemesis of Woody Woodpecker

[edit] Other

• Buzz (airline), a discount airline formerly operating in Europe
• Buzz cut, American name for a type of haircut where the hair is sheared very closely to the scalp
• Buzz number, letter and number combination applied to U.S. Air Force aircraft after World War II
• Bizz buzz, a group word game
• Salt Lake Buzz, former name of the Salt Lake Bees minor league baseball team
• Marketing buzz, a term used in word of mouth marketing
• Experiencing intoxication from drugs
• Buzz Cola, a fictional cola drink of The Simpsons

[edit] See also

• The Buzz
• Bzzz!, a relationship TV game show that aired from 1996-1998
• buzzkill

[edit] External links

• Web Buzz Examiner: a columnist that follows Internet trends.

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