MetaFilter posts tagged with forbes

Not surprisingly, Detroit didn't make the list.

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:41:39 -0800

Thinking of relocating in these troubled economic times? You might want to consider checking out Forbes' list of The Most Overpriced Cities in America. The Top 5: Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York, and... Providence?

Crudsourcing

WPW — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:16:53 -0800

Forbes magazine runs an article promoting Crowdspring, the "design crowdsourcing" website, and calls professional design "snooty". Professional designers go absolutely crazy.

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Brown

sy — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:00:54 -0800

Forbes Magazine has compiled a ranking of the top 569 undergraduate institutions in America. Designed to compete with the venerable U.S. News and World Report rankings, Forbes offers a different methodology and some controversial results. Several smaller, less-heralded liberal arts colleges, like Centre College of Kentucky and Wabash College of Indiana, finished in the top twenty-five. Some larger and better-known schools, including Cornell (121st), Dartmouth (127th), and the University of Michigan (161st), finished far below. Forbes's methodology, which leans heavily on Who's Who in America and ratemyprofessor.com, has received criticism.

Oil at the Top and Oil at the Bottom

Navelgazer — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:15:18 -0800

The world's cleanest cities and dirtiest cities.

A Whiz Kid in Kenya

lunit — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:22:51 -0800

Tevis Howard, a 2007 Brown University graduate and recent recipient of the Draper Richards Fellowship and the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship, is the 2005 Founder and Executive Director of KOMAZA, a non-profit community-based organization in Kenya. KOMAZA's mission is to "end chronic poverty in Kenya by promoting health, economic growth, education, and infrastructure development" through a tree farming social enterprise. Partnering with the Tree Biotechnology Project, KOMAZA plants fast-growning, drought-tolerant Eucalyptus trees as a cash crop for rural, substinance farming communities. In 2002, then 17-year-old Tevis Howard was recognized by Forbes ASAP magazine (which ceased publication in October 2002) as an ASAP Teenage All Star and won third place in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his research developing a novel treatment for multiple sclerosis. Declared to be a "prodigy" and a "whiz kid" early on, Tevis helped publish a report in 2002 on immunology and Malaria in Kenya. In 2006, Tevis won a Rhode Island competition for his KOMAZA business plan.

Who's the Boss?

scalefree — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:22:21 -0800

Introducing the Forbes corporate org chart wiki (beta). Forbes magazine is conducting an experiment in Web 2.0 to collaboratively map the org charts of corporations including Intel, Apple, Google, & Microsoft. Everyone is encouraged to pitch in, add names or make corrections. And if your company's not already on the list you can always add it.

Steve Forbes is the Original Buzzkill

fenriq — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:45:43 -0800

Forbes Magazine Details The Top Ten Most Exotic Kinds of Weed (yes, the puff puff kind) with pricing and lovely pictures but no links to local dispensaries.

PS. Yer favorite weed that's not on the list sucks.

Gentlemen prefer bonds

blacklite — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:42:38 -0800

The Forbes Fictional 15 has been updated for 2006, witnessing energy and defense tycoons like Tony Stark and Oliver Warbucks high on the list and notable perennials like Lex Luthor sliding off. In new additions, Mr. Monopoly has done very well with recent real estate prices rising, and Prince Abikaliki of Nigeria pops up to #10 despite recent legal troubles.
(Metafilter covered the Fictional 15 in 2005 and 2002.)

Rocking and rolling... California style!

RockBandit — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:35:53 -0800

San Andreas primed to "explode." Growing up in SoCal, we constantly practiced earthquake drills in anticipation of the "Big One." Now, new evidence suggests that the Big One will be even worse than we all feared. At the moment, everything looks calm though. People say we're crazy for living in either San Francisco or Los Angeles, of course we think living in New Orleans is crazy too. But cities are rebuilt. And no matter where you go, you really can't escape natural disasters. Besides, some of the biggest earthquakes in the United States were in Missouri! In any case, Forbes compiled a list of the safest and least safest places to live in the U.S. in regards to natural disasters. Apparently... we should all move to Hawaii!

Living the good life on just $483,800 a year

blahblahblah — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:43:08 -0800

What it costs to live well in the United States. According to Forbes, living well for a family of four in New York City requires an annual income of $483,800, compared to $189,923 in Wichita, Kansas. Of course, living well, according to the methodology, involves a vacation home, a BMW 325i and a Lexus RX 330, weekends at the Ritz, and almost no savings, so you might want to skip one of these things if you are a few bucks shy. Also worth noting, the most expensive ZIP codes and houses in the United States (and the world). Are you living well?

Bonanza of articles and interviews on communication

painquale — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 01:27:06 -0800

Forbes special report on communication. A truckload of excellent articles and interview excerpts! Noam Chomsky on the spontaneous invention of language. Carl Zimmer on talking chimps. Jane Goodall on why words hurt. Arthur C. Clarke on the planetary conversation. Kurt Vonnegut on telling a story. Desmond Morris on symbolic gestures. Sid Meier on communicating with video games. David Copperfield on keeping secrets. Stan Lee on the superpower of comics. Steven Pinker on why we have language. Walter Cronkite on the language of news. Daniel Libeskind on the language of design. And much more!

When blogs attack!

nyterrant — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:56:09 -0800

"Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo."

A frothing rant on bloggers and blogging by Forbes [bugmenot]. Don't miss their advice on how businesses can fight back!

Mine is always pegged.

bashos_frog — Mon, 23 May 2005 14:20:24 -0800

Dozens of MeFi posts finally explained. How can I replace the batteries when I don't even have a meter?

corporate hate, does it hurt?

raygun21 — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:09:41 -0800

You Suck! Forbes recently published an article detailing [their favorite] top 10 corporate hate websites, with some not so surprising names on the list. Or you can roll your own. Grassroots in action, but does that action actually change anything? (found via /.)

Mobile Porn Ban?

analogue — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:44:33 -0800

Will mobile phone porn be banned before reaching the mainstream? Startup Companies as well as established veterans alike have been itching to make a buck from the mobile market. Will they ever get the chance? Not in Israel.

People who drink to excess also tend to be chronic smokers

Blake — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:35:59 -0800

Speaking Of weight loss and exercise... Those who like their booze also like their nicotine. People who drink to excess also tend to be chronic smokers, and a new report suggests the combination of the two might prove more toxic than either one alone. a small study found chronic smoking + alcohol dependence = increased severity of brain damage. The frontal lobes (short-term storage sites) turn out to be the most damaged. A separate study used rats to show that alcoholism and excessive food intake may share the same chemical pathways in the brain. Forbes has the HealthDayNews report that focuses mainly on the smokes, MSNBC looks more at the eats. They also have an interesting Addictions Sections. Could it be that some folks are just prone to addictions and everyone settles on something different?

Paoli, Indiana doesn't look so bad anymore...

PenDevil — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:50:45 -0800

The 60 best cheapest places to live in America.

A real life professor frink

drezdn — Thu, 20 May 2004 11:03:26 -0800

Maybe the age of the individual inventor isn't over. Woody Norris is the inventor of the personal helicopter, precise Hypersonic sound emitter, and the first palm-size digital voice recorder... And never graduated from college.

Good news for 308,000 American citizens and one President.

msacheson — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 11:45:13 -0800

U.S. job growth strongest in 4 years in March. Non-farm payrolls climbed 308,000 in March, the Labor Department said, the biggest gain since April 2000. However, the unemployment rate actually ticked upward from 5.6%, the two-year low seen in January and February, to 5.7% in March. Note in passing that this took place during the Bush administration!

The best that modern science can say for sexual abstinence is that it's harmless when practiced in moderation.

NortonDC — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:45:12 -0800

Sex makes you smell better. Er, in that it improves your sense of smell. And it reduces the risk of heart disease. And relieves pain. And even improves teeth. This Forbes article explains those and other health benefits of getting a little something-something.

Back to work, peasants!

dejah420 — Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:15:21 -0800

Treasure hoarding bastards to the starboard bow, Mr. Christian! While they laid off millions and millions of workers, and starting moving jobs to offshore providers, the rich got richer. According to the new The Forbes 400, the aggregate net worth of the nation's wealthiest 400 citizens leapt 10% in the past year, to $955 billion. Meanwhile, minimum wage hasn't been raised since 1997.

GreyWingnut — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:33:53 -0800

Who's richer: Montgomery Burns, Cruella De Vil, or Bruce Wayne? On the heels of last month's Top-Earning Dead Celebrities list, Forbes brings us their Fictional Fifteen, the wealthiest made-up people in the world. Anyone see any egregious exclusions?

mikemonteiro — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:51:53 -0800

Top-Earning Dead Celebrities Forbes' has published their annual list of what dead celebrities are earning. Shooting to number 4 this year; Dale Earnhardt, who kicks Andy Warhol off the list.

engelr — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 05:48:12 -0800

City as Loser? Iron City was ranked last out of 40 cities in this year's "Best Cities for Singles" in Forbes magazine. Not that Forbes is the ultimate arbiter of the single life (don't they specialize in male readers over 35 with money?), but your best defense of Pittsburgh or your own medium- or small-sized town would be appreciated.

jellybuzz — Fri, 01 Mar 2002 14:39:39 -0800

Imagine losing almost $6 billion of your own personal fortune in a year and still being the richest damn human in the known universe, hands down, with no one even close. (If i must, here's a link to the new Forbes list.) What I want to know is, how come out of the approximately 500 billionaires on the list, only 35 are women, and of those, only ONE made it herself. All the other super rich dames on the globe either married bucks, or got 'em from daddy.