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Welcome to the Tripod Insider. This week, we celebrate one of life's greatest pleasures — being well-fed. Read all about it after checking out what's new on the site.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Oscars. Grammys. Webbys. We want a Webby! Webbys are awards given out to the top Web sites, as voted by Web users, and Tripod has been nominated for best community site on the Web! Get to those virtual voting booths now — you might be the lucky voter to win a trip to San Francisco to attend The Webby Awards, courtesy of THE WEB Magazine. Vote for us today!
The teams are ready, but are you? Through the end of January, look for Tripod's "Countdown to the Super Bowl," featuring links to the official superbowl.com Web site powered by IBM. You can check out the live events, fan polls, trivia, games, stats, and more! Look for the Countdown to the Super Bowl box on our homepage and in our Health/Sports Zone.
The response to the new surveys we launched as part of the Tripod book has been awesome so far. If you haven't stopped by yet, now's the time to get published next to your favorite Tripod editors and columnists. See you in print!
—Matt Goldberg, Editorial Director, Tripod in Print
Dahlings, there's a party and you're invited! It's been a crashing bore so far — a room full of vice and no guest willing to indulge. We've got gluttony, vanity, drugs, alcohol... and Elvis, Madonna, Marv Albert, and more. Be a dear and make the introductions, in our Shockwave game, "Vicestyles of the Rich and Famous." Let's mingle, baby!
The most fashionable and beautiful Tripod members aren't afraid of gossip; they are afraid of the fashion police. Hang out with the beautiful ones, in the Mod Pod.
—Dan Reines and Emma Taylor, Issues Editors
In Green Bay, Wisconsin, all the most exciting things you can do involve sitting on your butt in sub-zero weather, which may explain why the Packers are the hottest ticket in town. But whatever the reason, the devotion of the Cheeseheads is something to behold...
How's yer achin' back? How's that baby workin' out for ya? Look, here at Tripod, we care. Which is why we've got our top medicos on hand to answer your toughest questions. So don't ask us — Ask the Doctors!
Pretty excited about that Super Bowl, but maybe you're locked in a room with no one to talk to? Then come on down to the Sports Fans Pod!
—Lori Tuckett and Dan Reines, Health/Sports Editors
This week in the Women's Zone, Bernadette Noll examines the stereotype of the sexy librarian (the smart, dowdy woman who lets her hair down at night) and asks why she can only be sexy after hours.
Then, join in the newest topic of the Women's Zone Conference, Lipstick Librarians, to discuss why it is still news when a woman is smart AND sexy (e.g. Helen Hunt).
Do you think you have it better than your mother did? Do you think the phrase "women's equality" is still an oxymoron? Get involved, in the X-Squared Pod.
—Emma Taylor, Women's Editor
At Tripod, we work hard and we play hard. We play ping-pong hard. Really hard. Do you play as hard as we do? Take on Tripod staff members — "LIVE AND HEAD-TO-HEAD" with PINGMASTER 2000! Pong? Never heard of it...
From Scrabble to Quake, the Gamesta Pod is into games of all varieties.
—Chris Young, Toymaker
The holiday season is over, friends, and there's nothing left to distract us from the fact that it's really and truly WINTER. But you can transform those gloomy, cold days by waking up late, calling in sick, and cooking yourself some fabulous meals.
Find your inner Julia Child in Tripod's sweet-smellin' Cooking Capers Pod.
—Sidney Harper, Homelife Editor
If you only watch the latest movies from Hollywood, you're missing some of the world's most exciting and innovative cinema. Expand your horizons as film maker and critic A.S. Hamrah takes you on a wild tour of Bollywood and introduces you to the films of India.
You don't HAVE to love monsters, masked wrestlers, and shoot-outs to dig the FilmBuffs Pod... but it helps.
—Randy Williams, Media Editor
Does a promotion guarantee an increase in attitude and ego? Catherine Hedgecock demystifies the seemingly inevitable "Outbreak of Boss-itis" whenever someone climbs the career ladder, and offers a treatment plan to bring an unruly boss back in line.
Why suffer a bad manager when you can be your own boss? Join the SmallBiz Pod and learn from other entrepreneurs.
—Lori Tuckett, Work/Money Editor
Travelling font salesman Chank Diesel is back with another amazing font, hand-drawn just for you by a real-life rockstar. Jim Marcus of Die Warzau and Everplastic took sharpie in hand and the result was Marcusia, the latest of Tripod's Rockstar Fonts. Download and enjoy.
Join the fun: publish a page on the mechanics, art, or philosophy of Web page building, in the PageSlave Pod.
—Josh Glenn, Web/Tech Editor
ALSO FROM TRIPOD
Every Friday, one of the gang here at Tripod World Headquarters shares a few informal thoughts with our readers. This week Ethan Zuckerman, our Vice-Prez of Research and Development, discovers just how many personal details about his life are easily accessible on the Internet. Should you do the same?
Sign up for Premium Membership today and receive one month FREE! We know you'll love Premium Membership, with the 15 MB of disk space, your own Personal Chat Room, and a Tripod E-Mail Forwarding address, among other benefits. But see for yourself: We're offering new Premium Members the chance to try it with one month free!
THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR
This week's Insider is brought to you by Earthlink, an environmentally conscious Calling Card that gives you 210 minutes for a penny a minute and residential service as low as 9 cents a minute (UK 12 cents a minute!). Get either service and automatically be entered in a sweepstakes for a Gateway 300 Mhz computer system. Visit Earthlink to sign up!
The Tripod Insider has a habit of making a big deal out of small things and this week is no different. The buzz around the office is about our newest perks: free soda, and Pizza Wednesdays! After 2 years of paying 40 cents for locally brewed Squeeze soda (one of our original sources of revenue, by the way), the powers that be thought it would be nice to provide free soda for the troops. Although some die-hard traditionalists still opt for the neon green lemon-lime Squeeze, the cheapskates go for the free stuff.
In other random acts of kindness, from now on, every Wednesday evening the company buys us pizza. This is a resurrection of an old tradition started when there were fewer people at Tripod and we all got paid significantly less. It's nice to see the company bring back the old ways (with the pizza, that is). Nothing brings a company together more than free food and drink does.
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
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