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Muckety maps "the connections of the rich and famous."
My god, it's an entire website devoted to Walls of Crazy! ...except not. Not crazy that is.
posted by happyroach at 10:27 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by happyroach at 10:27 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]
I hope this thrives. It seems a bit limited at the moment, but the potential seems quite enormous.
It's the rich and obscure that is more interesting to me than the rich and famous (ie: celebrities). Famous people generally want to be famous. Rich people very often times want to stay out of the limelight. Tools like this that reveal relationships can be a pretty powerful tool for journalists (and activists).
Java doesn't enthuse me (as a way to display the data) and it seems a bit non-obvious how to build good visualizations at the moment - but it shows promise.
posted by el io at 10:35 PM on August 1, 2014 [3 favorites]
It's the rich and obscure that is more interesting to me than the rich and famous (ie: celebrities). Famous people generally want to be famous. Rich people very often times want to stay out of the limelight. Tools like this that reveal relationships can be a pretty powerful tool for journalists (and activists).
Java doesn't enthuse me (as a way to display the data) and it seems a bit non-obvious how to build good visualizations at the moment - but it shows promise.
posted by el io at 10:35 PM on August 1, 2014 [3 favorites]
What a boon to prospect researchers!
posted by Jacqueline at 2:11 AM on August 2, 2014
posted by Jacqueline at 2:11 AM on August 2, 2014
G. William Domhoff (Wikipedia link) regarding class coherency.
The Social Register (Wikipedia link) on which Domhoff first based his analysis.
America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism by David K. Noble
The Russian term for "ruling class" is nomenklatura, or nomenclature. I always found that kind of neat. The common salutation in Russian is a cognate of "private"; Not directly related, just neat. I recall several popular paperbacks about the super-rich from the 1970s supplanted by "greed is good". Domhoff was an academic alternative to most of the "class" arguments I engaged in college a long time ago.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 5:08 AM on August 2, 2014
The Social Register (Wikipedia link) on which Domhoff first based his analysis.
America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism by David K. Noble
The Russian term for "ruling class" is nomenklatura, or nomenclature. I always found that kind of neat. The common salutation in Russian is a cognate of "private"; Not directly related, just neat. I recall several popular paperbacks about the super-rich from the 1970s supplanted by "greed is good". Domhoff was an academic alternative to most of the "class" arguments I engaged in college a long time ago.
posted by lazycomputerkids at 5:08 AM on August 2, 2014
...reminds me of the much older They Rule.
posted by Stu-Pendous at 7:25 AM on August 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Stu-Pendous at 7:25 AM on August 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
> The common salutation in Russian is a cognate of "private";
Well, partly. Maybe. Private is from Latin prīvātus, past participle of prīvāre 'deprive, rob,' in post-classical Latin also 'take away, remove,' from prīvus 'separate, single, individual, private, peculiar,' which is probably derived from pri 'before.' Привет [privet] is one of the many prefixed forms of the root -вет/вѣт [-vet]. whose basic meaning is 'speak' (cf. обет [obet < ob- + -vet] 'vow,' ответ [otvet] 'answer,' совет [sovet] 'council; advice,' etc. (the root is related to various Baltic and Iranian words). The question is whether the Latin and Slavic pris are related; they probably are, but who knows for sure?
You may now resume tracing the spiderwebs in which we are all caught (Who Will Be Eaten First?).
posted by languagehat at 7:58 AM on August 2, 2014 [2 favorites]
Well, partly. Maybe. Private is from Latin prīvātus, past participle of prīvāre 'deprive, rob,' in post-classical Latin also 'take away, remove,' from prīvus 'separate, single, individual, private, peculiar,' which is probably derived from pri 'before.' Привет [privet] is one of the many prefixed forms of the root -вет/вѣт [-vet]. whose basic meaning is 'speak' (cf. обет [obet < ob- + -vet] 'vow,' ответ [otvet] 'answer,' совет [sovet] 'council; advice,' etc. (the root is related to various Baltic and Iranian words). The question is whether the Latin and Slavic pris are related; they probably are, but who knows for sure?
You may now resume tracing the spiderwebs in which we are all caught (Who Will Be Eaten First?).
posted by languagehat at 7:58 AM on August 2, 2014 [2 favorites]
Quick, someone make one for the Kochtopus
updated 9 december 2013
This site is rather weird. Happy birthday Nat Rothschild and Million pound bash. It's like National Enquirer for nerds. I don't believe I would ever have come across that Guardian story if this hadn't been posted on metafilter.
posted by bukvich at 10:04 AM on August 2, 2014
updated 9 december 2013
This site is rather weird. Happy birthday Nat Rothschild and Million pound bash. It's like National Enquirer for nerds. I don't believe I would ever have come across that Guardian story if this hadn't been posted on metafilter.
posted by bukvich at 10:04 AM on August 2, 2014
My god, it's an entire website devoted to Walls of Crazy! ...except not. Not crazy that is.
Heh -- if you want to see full-on Wall of Crazy, look at Angelia Jolie's page on Muckety.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:15 PM on August 2, 2014
Heh -- if you want to see full-on Wall of Crazy, look at Angelia Jolie's page on Muckety.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 12:15 PM on August 2, 2014
> ...reminds me of the much older They Rule.
Also NNDB.
posted by contraption at 3:50 PM on August 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
Also NNDB.
posted by contraption at 3:50 PM on August 2, 2014 [1 favorite]
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