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F  E  B  R  U  R  U  R  U  A  R  Y   1  9  9  8

1.  Egoteq  hit  the nail  on  the  head  this month  with   his  hirez  piece,
"iCE  V2: Ready To  Fly".  We couldn't have  said it more accurately!  With our
server back online and a backup mirror being implemented now, iCE V2 is winding
down into its final stages.  Some text re-writes, a few graphics here and there
and  the implementation  of the last couple  of interfaces  and it's  go  time!

2. Great  member  news this month!  Recently added  member  BMXMEN  is  already
making  big waves; he  is working on the 3D portion  of a new Red Man video for
MTV.  You can check out his work this month in the vga portion of the iCE Pack.
DaVinci  was chosen as a  winner in Adobe's "Give The  President A New Haircut"
competition.  Making the CEO of Adobe look just a little more punk proved to be
too  much for the  judges to  ignore.  And in the "New Member  Kicking Ass(tm)"
department, last-month inductee Funbaby was  seen tearing it up when  his image
was  chosen as a MetaCreations  Image Of The Day.  Not  just any monkey  can be
chosen for something like that, it takes an iCEMonkey( (C) Darkmage )!

3.  Three comes before four.  *applause*

4.  About this time in the newsletter,  we like to tell everyone who joined and
who quit and  who we had to neuter a second time.  However, we  don't feel like
doing that quite yet.

4.  We have  heard your requests!  Yes, the  whining and  bitching has  finally
pierced  our sound-proofed ear  plugs and we can now  hear you shrill and clear
saying "smaller packs".  We realize that the 30 second difference between 4.5mb
instead of 4.0mb is time sorely  torn away from special "wacky" time, and we're
making  inroads to accomodate  you, the viewer.  The iCE staff  will be using a
complicated formula to ensure that iCE high-resolution pieces are optimized for
downloading, and heaven forbid, not viewing.

5.  Inazone said  that FOS 13 will be inspired by a recent experience involving
women of large caliber, social gatherings, and  hormone-enraged females yelling
obscenities regarding sexual intercourse.  Sick, just sick.

6.  Still not in the mood to share that information...

7.  Man, some months you're just not funny.  I think Seinfeld had that problem.

8.  Frequently.

9.  While we're laying in bed at night, trying  to get some rest, we often hear
the delighted and  joyful screams of esctacy as Senior Staff Sinned Sould views
another  ass-kicking iCE Pack.  Many of these throes of  passion are because of
our  VGA crew placing  those pixels in oh-so provocative  manners.  Perhaps you
too wake  people at  night with your  screams?  Would you like  to instill this
same effect in others?  Jamie McCarter wants to make  that a reality with a new
series  of 3D  tutorials.  Want to  learn how iCE guys  do some of their stuff?
Just email icestaff@ice.org and we'll do our best to lose it!

10.  iCE is proud to announce this month that we have a NEW drawing program! It
is almost  ready for release  and is VERY close to being  made public.  It will
support all the popular formats (xbin/adf/idf/bin) and  will include ANSImation
support  in a later  release!  We also  took into account  that since the Linux
Penguin is  slowly taking over  the world, we should support  Linux.  And so it
will be.

11.  Did we say _lose_ it?  Ha  Ha  Ha!  That  was a typo.  We would never lose
anything.  Ever.  And  we  guarantee  customer  satisfaction  with  a  24  hour
turnaround on everything staff-related, don't we?

12.  Apparently  there was  an isolated  incident involving  the National  Org.
of Women  and a delivery of Swank magazine to a local bookstore  in New Jersey.
The  resulting  riot killed  the power in  a localized  area where  our ice.org
server is located.  By the time they ran out of food and automatic weapon ammo,
5 days had gone by.  We have ousted the opposition and returned power to little
ole' lemon.ice.org.

13.  If your kindergarten reasoning skills should ever cause you to see magnets
with "X"s through them, for God's sake, don't think that means "de-magnetizing"

14.

-Mass "50.1 + 50.9 = 100.0, duh!" Delusion // iCE Senior Staff

Cold and Ugly        Force Ten        Mass Delusion        Lord Soth