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Vol. 3, No. 9

February 28, 1997

Welcome to another Tripod Insider -- your source for all things Tripod. A new employee arrives at the office, her manager leaves for Rome, and yet another falls ill. Read more about it after finding out what's new on Tripod.

Content And Services

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WORK & MONEY

This week our theme is "The Bottom Line," and we show you how to paint yours black with a rock-solid line-up of columns, surveys, and tutorials.

Our investment wizard Ken Kurson put his money where his mouth is by building a $10,000 model portfolio -- which he then tracked to a 23 percent profit! Discover the method to his stock madness.

How do you decide what amounts to invest -- or where? Sound off in this week's W&M; survey:

Are stocks too scary for the novice or small-time investor? Hey, no sweat -- just check out our new kick-ass guide to mutual funds and discover a safer place to park the contents of your penny jar.

That gosh-darned wacky government of ours has gone and changed some of the personal tax laws again. As the filing deadline draws ever nearer, let expert Eva Rosenberg show you the new pitfalls and loopholes.

And finally, be sure to join us for the first-ever W&M; conference! Our members are having a ball (and maybe even learning something) debating and pontificating upon various subjects related to working smart:

Randy Williams, Editor

HOMELIFE

This week in Living and Travel, we examine a cult figure gone to cheese, in The Pride and Prejudice of Quentin Tarantino. Scott Hamrah is impressed by Tarantino's taste in movies, but questions his tasteless (self-) promotion methods:

Femme Flicke's Tina Spangler tells Tarantino to suck it up and admit that he's no feminist.

And then, in this week's survey AND in the new Media Savvy Conference, we ask: Can Tarantino redeem himself? He hasn't made a feature since Pulp Fiction, and the only film work of his that anyone's seen lately is his abysmal Four Rooms segment. Has the bad boy filmmaker become a self-serving loudmouth? You decide.

Emma Taylor, Editor

POLITICS & COMMUNITY

"Cities vs. Suburbs" month winds to a close this week... but we're going out with a bang! William "Upski" Wimsatt, one of the most persuasive voices arguing against suburbs and for ghettos today, pleads with us to get over our fear of cities (before it's too late):

And for you visual learners, we're happy to report that our own Jesse Milden, working with poet Stacey Green, has created "San Fernando Agonistes," a photofolio of Southern California's strip-mall culture:

The "Cities vs. Suburbs" conference will be drawing to a close soon, so you'd better get your licks in while you can. The "Which sucks less" debate -- like the others -- still rages on, at:

Finally, as we gear up for "Speed" month in Politics & Community (How fast does YOUR life move? And what are you gonna do about it?), check out our new conference on that very topic:

Josh Glenn, Editor

TRITECA

Dr. C explains how the Net has revolutionized her research into the DNA of fruit flies (and guess what the "C" stands for?), in the latest Perspective.

Eye Site takes a serious look at games, and asks -- from a design point of view -- What is fun? The answer awaits.

Doomsday may be upon Apple, but who can keep all the doom straight? Keep track of which big cheeses are jumping ship, in the Lemming Report.

Part II of the word on Real Audio and Liquid Audio.

And finally, the Page Slave welcomes a new era with Netscape 4.0. This is NOT your father's browser.

Michelle Chihara, Editor

Tripod Insider

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Another week, another new Tripod employee! This week we welcomed Karylee Doubiago as Production Assistant. It took 12 people to take over the work done by Karylee at her last job, which -- according to our figuring -- means that her 2 hands can do the work of 24. This, by happy coincidence, was part of the job description. Now Janet (the Production Manager) might actually be able to leave the building when it's still light out.

Janet, by the way, is notoriously attentive to detail. One time she woke up at 2:00 a.m. and came in to the office to check if there was a typo on our homepage. Needless to say, she doesn't settle for anything less than perfection. Now that she has a perfect Production Assistant, Janet has left the building in a big way. She was craving some Italian food this week, so she figured she would take a vacation to Rome...

On a more somber note, it seems that illness is striking the Tripod staff. Little Matty Quann our featured sick designer, was bed-ridden for much of last week. Fortunately Matt is back in the office, but he's still a bit nauseous, sleepy, and -- to top it off -- his medication tends to give him really "scary" dreams. So if in the near future you see a spooky page on the site that looks like it was, uh, thrown up there, blame Matt.

Tripod Membership

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Thanks for becoming a member of Tripod.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me.
My mailbox is always open.

Tung T. Pham
Membership Director
[email protected]

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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