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Vol. 2, No. 20

September 20, 1996

Welcome to another Tripod Insider -- your source for all things Tripod. It's been a busy week at the office, so it's a good time for another edition of the Insider Index. Check out the numbers after the editors tell you about the incredible amount of new content on Tripod.

Content And Services

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GENERAL NEWS
We're pleased to have helped our friends over at Student Advantage put up their brand new Web site, where Tripod members and others can buy their terrific discount card ($20 for discounts on travel, food, photocopying, cards, hardware....) and check out the discounts available in their area. If you're a student, check it out!

WORK & MONEY
Zowie! Rather than rest on the Work and Money section's considerable laurels, we are constantly striving to keep our content fresh and our interactive services "New and Improved." To that end, we have supercharged the Resume Builder -- what was already a killer app now blows away anything else on the Web. The rest of this week's offerings are similarly action-packed: the second installment of Bruce Tulgan's "X Nuggets" zaps the myth of slackers in the workforce while Harry Goldstein's "Working Life" column describes an electrifying moment of "career epiphany." Howard Rheingold (one of the creators of HotWired) discusses "Electric Minds," an experimental for-profit on-line community in a high-voltage Tripod interview. But wait -- there's more: a review of the career guide "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was," a sizzling survey, and a dazzling dilemma. Drop by and get down to business!

Randy Williams, Editor

POLITICS & COMMUNITY
This week in Politics & Community, we begin our Campaign '96 coverage.Laurie Ouellette dissects Dole's recent campaign ad -- an attempt to reach out to younger voters. Political Playbook focuses on legislation that Congress is likely to consider before the election recess. We review Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72." Harry Goldstein reports on the action at the Christian Coalition's Convention. And you can share your opinion about the exclusion of Ross Perot in the Presidential debates in the weekly survey.

Anthony Qaiyum, Editor

HOMELIFE
Throw out your old guidebooks, it's time to take a Literatour of the world! The first column in Tripod's new Literatour series retraces the antics in Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises." And if you've read the book, you must remember the classic Pyrenees trout fishing scene. Tripod interviews James Prosek, the 21 year old author of "Trout: An Illustrated History." Prosek has been heralded as "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world." On a less earthly note, Tools for Thought reviews the most sold/least read "A Brief History of Time," by Stephen Hawking. The review is a cocktail party cheat-sheet, witty anecdotes included. And of course, the doctor is in. This week he ponders the side effects of Speed, iron overload in blood, and whether low blood pressure can cause fatigue. Finally, I received such an onslaught of email about our recent homeopathy series that I decided to let Tripod members fight it out in this week's survey: Is homeopathy anything more than an expensive, fancy-labeled placebo?

Emma Taylor, Editor

Tripod Insider

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A Welcome to another Insider Index, which provides a little insight, and hopefully some humor, into the state of Tripod.

• Amount of data our servers deliver per second for the Tripod site: 20k/sec (1.7 gigs/day)
• Amount of data our servers deliver per second for Tripod member pages: 130k/sec (11.3 gigs/day)

• Number of pairs of shoes Ethan owns: 8
• Number of pairs of shoes Ethan wears at the office: 0

• Number of separate office suites Tripod occupies: 5
• Number of times I've moved: 6

• Ratio of Tripod members in the U.S. versus members outside the U.S.: 9:4

• Number of full time staff: 23
• Number of staff whose first names have exactly four letters: 10

• Number of cars owned by Tripod Staff: 22
• Number of Jaguars: 1
• Number of staff who drive more than a mile to work: 4

• Average number of email messages Membership Services receives per day: 300
• The increase in that number of messages the day after the Insider is sent: 100

• Tripod Soccer Team career win/loss record: 4-6-1
• Tripod Volleyball Team record: 3-9

• Ratio of nights Jeff has slept at home versus nights he slept in the office attic: 2:1

We were afraid that he was having an affair with one of the computers. Fortunately, he's over that now.

Tripod Membership

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Thanks for becoming a member of Tripod.

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My mailbox is always open.

Tung T. Pham
Membership Director
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This has been another issue of the Tripod Insider, the occasional newsletter on what's happening at Tripod. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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