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1.  A decidedly  salubrious month of May  lead to an  exciting June!   With the
beginning of  summer coming this  month,  we wanted to  give you a pack of cool
refreshing artwork.   Unfortunately for you,  Sprite pointed out that while the
art  might be  "cool"  the computer  doesn't do much  to cool  you off,  and in
reality it generates a lot of heat.  Blah!

2.  The  great  vacuum of  persuasion and  misinformation conned  the following
unsuspecting  art troopers into iCE this month:  Mongi to the VGA team,  coming
to us after leaving Twilight,  and Gorechild and  Dreadnought to the ANSI team.
Trip feels ignored, so we felt it only appropriate to mention him here as well.
Therefore, Trip joined  iCE again,  coming to us from... uhh.. iCE!   Cheers to
all the newbies!

2a. Our  sincerest  apologies to the  great Borian,  who wasn't mentioned  last
month in  the NFO  file as  Force Ten was beaten  with a rowing paddle  and was
unable to function  within normal parameters.   Borian rejoined iCE  last month
and we're very happy to have him.  Welcome!

2b. (Or not 2b? Nevermind..) The first person in ages to escape from the frozen
religious  compound this  month was Overbored,  who left to  join Twilight.  We
wished him  well with his future endeavors,  but only after everyone ran to the
top of the barracks and shot spitballs at him through straws.

3.  A new man after  returning from Jae's torture chamber,  Information Systems
director Lickbert  proudly proclaims "zug-zug, dahboo, swoahvoo!".   Therefore,
we  had to  beat him silly.  But, Farmicus  reports  that  the new secret  UNIX
tricks  won't be a secret anymore.  He also wonders if anyone cares.   SpaceDev
aka Vlad  the wonder monkey is working on a new  addition to the iCE web pages.
While iCE works hard on version 2 (lovingly named v2 internally),  the Vlad-ape
has taken it upon himself to add a  new service to the page for iCE fans! Check
out the pages in the next week or two!

4.  In the stealth artist of the month club,  we'd like to  declassify the once
private information  that Kyp is  indeed a member of iCE.   While you might not
realize that by looking at the memberlist the last few months, you must realize
that Kyp was our secret agent overseas  mobilizing art troops to combat against
scattered anti-iCE demonstrations.  He retired, and thus will be recognized now
as a member of the group.  Thanks for your hard work, Kyp!

5.  In the 'wow that's pretty darn cool' department,  iCE is  proud to announce
that we are now releasing TTF (True Type Fonts) fonts in the pack.  These fonts
are used for Windows 95/NT/etc,  and are just really awesome.   It's a very new
art form  for the 'scene',  and is a very creative medium.   hFaze is the first
iCE artist to release  TTFs in a pack,  and to  our knowledge,  the first scene
artist to release TTFs in *any* pack.  Kudos!

6.  In other news,  it was revealed to secret  sources this month that Kabal 13
was raped and abused  by four women in the span of a week.   Kabal,  who lost a
videotape of sex and a small rubber ducky in the week, said merely "God damn it
just gets worse!  First SSH, now this!?"  We understand, Kabal. He also angrily
complained that his former girlfriend and voluptuous naked model chick left him
for a hot dog stand owner.  At least Kabal still has the special sauce...

6a. We'd just like to say that that was an  utterly disgusting last line to the
previous news story.  "Stop that, it's silly."

7.  iCE would like to congratulate all of the members who graduated high school
this past June.  Enjoy the final summer before college... cuz the real world is
right around the corner.

7b. We would also like to thank Tempus to rip Slum Dweller's font.

8.  Megalith was  bloody pissed about his England giving  Hong Kong back to the
Chinese.   Therefore, he's organized a small army made up of iCE members, BoA's
buddies from  the Black Crowes  tours,  and ogre-mages.   This army will invade
China from the Mongolian border.   They expect a quick victory.  When asked why
he's doing this, Megalith spat "For the bloody queen, mate!"  Indeed.

9.  Unidentified Flying  Objects were spotted  in Arizona  traveling in  groups
this past month.  People there were confused and amazed, especially since radar
could not  pick up the objects,  and military reported no military  activity in
the area.   One child yelled "Independence Day  Independence Day" until his dad
smacked him.  But, iCE must douse the excitement.   It wasn't really a UFO, but
rather  Tonedef and  Renderbrandt  and Tiny3d  in their newly  rendered  flying
machines.  Oops!

10. And for those  who complain that iCE  doesn't have an ASCII  department and
that we have  alienated the  world's ASCII community  (we didn't  mean to  hurt
anyone's feelings),  this is for  you!   iCE's Aneurysm is  sponsoring an ASCII
drawing contest!  Prizes are valuable to any artist, we're told.   More details
can be found at http://www.vfive.com/~vincenzo/ascii.html.  Good Luck!

11. Once again a stellar pack that was out of this world (nothing  like keeping
to a theme here, eh?)  iCE keeps  getting better,  and it keeps  getting better
to be iCE.   Can't wait to  see what the summer  has in store for us.   Keep it
here, folks.  See you next month.

Cold and Ugly           Force Ten           Mass Delusion