Comments on: nsfw http://tinyurl.com/5aqry nsfw

nsfw http://tinyurl.com/5aqry nsfw

Dean Keaton — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:42:49 -0800

NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:46:25 -0800

I was going to post this, having stumbled across it a short while ago. It needs a lot of help, though, as many of the bios are sketchy at best. The idea of seeing seemingly unrelated people linked together in a sort of six degrees of separation way is great, though.

By: Asparagirl

Asparagirl — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:42:50 -0800

Did they just list everyone as "sexual orientation: straight" by default? People with little information in their profiles still always seem to have that listed. Even people who are widely rumored to be bi are listed as straight; see, for example, Avril Lavigne.

By: Hankins

Hankins — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 06:54:24 -0800

It works every time!

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:00:53 -0800

FWIW it lists Anna Nicole Smith as bi and John DuPont as gay .

By: painquale

painquale — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:05:07 -0800

There's not much information on each person, so it's a terrible lookup resource, but it's great for browsing. I found this great interview with Gallagher via a link there, which (Good God) makes me want to see a Gallagher show. I also learned that Donald Trump never shakes hands, calling handshakes "barbaric." It's mostly for pop culture fluff, though - look up Octavio Paz or Rabelais and you just get a list of books they wrote and universities they attended.

By: painquale

painquale — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:20:02 -0800

The lists are the best feature. Here's a list of depression sufferers, and a list of schizophrenics. Famous Poles. Vegetarians. Diabetics. Fulbright scholars. New Yorker reporters. McGill University alumni. Etc. etc...

By: painquale

painquale — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:23:16 -0800

And possibly the best list of all: Coolest headshots.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 07:23:18 -0800

Search for "crazy" and you get lots of results. Heh...Gary Busey.

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:19:11 -0800

Hey, the Pogues are back together with MacGowan, and touring!

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:22:40 -0800

How is the url in the post title nsfw at all? It's just Billy Dee Williams in a Colt 45 liquor ad. Yes, the tinyurl is a bit of a surprise, but it's bad form.

By: digaman

digaman — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:38:09 -0800

Frankly, this site seems like utter crap -- almost an anti-Snopes. I had a look at the entries for two famous people who I know/knew quite well, Allen Ginsberg and David Crosby, and there were grossly misleading errors of facts or emphasis in both entries. And no, I don't have the time to send a stream of emails to these people to argue the points. This is practically a classic example of how Web media is prone to repeating mistaken information, and suffers from lack of fact-checking.

By: digaman

digaman — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:53:48 -0800

Shakespeare was "straight" and "an overrated hack," and the "executive summary" of Joni Mitchell is "Big Yellow Taxi"? Please. Worst of the Web.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:55:13 -0800

This sites gets points for linking to the Rotten Library, an incredible collection of biased and interesting facts. Think of it as the anti-wikipedia. And, unlike its offensive parent site, is pretty much totally SFW.

By: Kosh

Kosh — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:10:30 -0800

I've always thought a site like this one could be useful, a sort of "IMDB for people of note" (though I might add that IMDB has data on a lot of people who aren't entertainment industry types--politicians, etc.--from the latter half of the 20th century simply because they appeared on a TV program and thus got an entry) and I look at NNDB from time to time but I sometimes find the editorializing in the descriptions annoying, not to mention the factual inaccuracies mentioned above. Oh, and I understand epilepsy, depression, schizophrenia, etc., but why is "vegetarian" a "risk factor"? Second the Rotten Library. It's fun reading.

By: neustile

neustile — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:51:43 -0800

I am a bit scared because I am listed as a brother of someone minorly well-known. What freaks me out is that they list my full name, publicly unknown middle name included! (I am not exactly well-known and my middle name appears nowhere on the web.) I am wondering who these people are currently.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:32:45 -0800

Did they just list everyone as "sexual orientation: straight" by default? Some are listed as "Matter of Dispute".

By: firemouth

firemouth — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:05:34 -0800

A suprisingly frequent occurance of eyepatches in the headshots list.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:59:12 -0800

But Neustile, is the guy really your brother? And Painquale, how is that list headshots cool? How is it even a list of headshots? Maybe in Firefox there's a different page show but all I see is a list of people and no headshots or links to images.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:29:24 -0800

"She doesn't do skirts" If we'd all like to turn to March in our offical Avril Lavigne 2005 calendars, we will notice Avril Lavigne, wearing a skirt. Grrr.

By: painquale

painquale — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:48:05 -0800

billsaysthis, click on some of the names. You'll be taken to the main page for that person, and each will have a weird picture.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:18:02 -0800

painquale, doesn't seem so special to me unless one has a fetish for eyepatches.