NNDB — Intelligence Aggregator

What's that, you ask?

Me too.

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

OK, tell us more.

"Superficially, it seems much like a 'Who's Who' where a noted person's curriculum vitae is available."

True enough.

"But it exists mostly to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious."

Oh, now I get it: kind of a six degrees of separation/Kevin Bacon thing.

"A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been hanging out with."

I'd use the word "occasionally" rather than "often" but hey — let's not get overly analytic just now, if that's alright by you.

"Eventually, we will have synopses and analyses of creative works by the people in the database, including their books, films and recordings."

Maybe.

For fun, I put in my name but alas I guess I'm still in the almost famous/wanna–be division.

On the other hand, I put in the names of a few joeheads whose names occasionally appear in boldface type — they've made themselves known to me with requests (always assented to) — for confidentiality and voila, they came right up.

So I guess it does work.

Play around with it yourself and see what you come up with: heck, you've got nothing better to do.

Or let me put it another way: you've got nothing more interesting to do.

How's that?

Now scoot.

And no, I haven't a clue what NNDB stands for.

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Note added at 7:51 p.m. today: I noodled around the NNDB website and came upon this page, which states in very clear language not once but twice that NNDB stands for Notable Names Database Weblog.

Gee, that wasn't so hard.

My crack research team will be out of commisssion for the next hour or so while I read 'em the riot act, take them out to the woodshed and do whatever else I can think of to get them thinking straight and flying right again.

What a mötley crüe.