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Vol. 3, No. 32

August 8, 1997

Welcome to the Tripod Insider. This week we bring you a tale of streetsmart shopping, along with a cry for help from Lori and Alyssa. We also bring you two new employees, but what else is new? Read the news after seeing what's new on the site.

Content And Services

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NEW IN THE KITCHENETTE

Pizza with friends is not a dinner party. This week in Living, we show you what is, and why it's time you threw one. Chuck Hildebrand kicks off with all the reasons why you CAN hold a successful dinner party, and some recipes to impress a group of 20. If that's small potatoes for you, Pableaux Johnson lays down a challenge: Feed 100 of your closest friends. With the Kitchenette Recipe Calculator and Pableaux's help, it's easy. (Pableaux's hosting the Kitchenette topic of the Living conference for the next 2 weeks, so be sure to join him there.) It's all part of The Kitchenette Guide to Feeding Your Friends.

—Emma Taylor, Kitchenette editor

NEW IN THE WOMEN'S ZONE

This week, it's time to face facts in the Women's Room: At some point in your life (if you haven't already) you will probably move in with your significant other. And it isn't all sex on the kitchen floor, which is why we bring you The Guide to Moving In. Play the Moving In Simulator and see what kind of live-in lover you'd make, take the poll and see where people fall on the big issues of cohabitation, take some advice from Bernadette Noll (who knows all about "Yours, Mine, and Ours"), and then talk about it all in the Women's Room conference.

—Emma Taylor, Women's Room editor

NEW IN HEALTH/SPORTS

Have you gotten your body pierced yet? If not, you might think twice once you read Dr. Rob's grisly answers on infected nipple and ear jewelry. Dr. Rob also weighs in on when you should start getting mammograms and adult onset asthma, while Dr. Migdow prescribes natural remedies for insomnia and sclerodoma.

—Lori Tuckett, Health Editor

NEW IN WEB/TECH

Get LifeSupport's tips on how to avoid the usual problems Web page builders run into with frames. It means the difference between a really sweet site with frames — and one that's just annoying.

Our discussion of Internet censorship and regulation heats up this week in our YourLife conference on Trialogue.

And check out the latest news and happenings in the Tripod member community — come join a Pod. Make sure to check out our latest offering, the Gamesta' Pod.

Love your neighbor. Get a Web/Tech.

—Michelle Chihara, Screenlife Editor

PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP

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* WHEN to open your room!
* WHAT your room looks like!
* and WHO participates in your room!

AND you can link directly to your Personal Chat room from anywhere on the Net! So get Personal Chat, tons of disk space (15 MB), a private online Answering Machine and more at the low, low rate of $18 for six months. Sign up now!

Tripod Insider

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This week's Desperate Plea for Attention Award goes to staffers Lori Tuckett and Alyssa Boehm, who had their noses pierced to see what kind of reaction it would evoke around the office. Or so we thought: Turns out it was all a hoax — the noserings were fakes. Ah, but the joke's on them, isn't it? Much to their chagrin, barely anyone noticed their diamond-studded nostrils here in the hotbed of body art that is Tripod.

In other news, word has leaked that the pool table we've been enjoying for the past few weeks was bought not with company money but with... bonus points. Apparently, our long distance carrier has a system whereby every call we make earns us points we can use to buy stuff with their brand name all over it (sort of like Camel Bucks, but without the cancer). The deal is, you get some kind of hat for 500 points, and maybe a T-shirt for 2,000. So Bruce turned in 250,000 points, and they gave us a pool table. Next up: hot tub. (We make a lot of calls...)

And finally, what's an Insider without a few introductions? This week, ever-expanding Tripod welcomes designer Siouxsie (as in the Banshees) Fava (as in the beans) to the ad group. Siouxsie used to work for Parent Soup, where she claims she used playdough for her design inspiration. Time to grow up, Siouxsie — here we play ping pong and eat popsicles. We also welcome Paul DeBraccio as our new veep of ad sales. Rumor has it Paul drives like a maniac. Let's hope he sells ads as fast as he drives, or we might have to start paying him in long distance bonus points...

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 weekly newsletter on what's happening at Tripod.. Past issues of the Tripod Insider are also available.

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