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1.  As Kwanza, Ramadan, Christmas, and Ch-ch-ch-channuka fall  upon us, the
iCE  team would like take this opportunity to wish you all a happy holidays

filled  with  warm fires, presents, and ham.  It's all about ham, isn't it?

2.  eTantrum, Inc., co-founded by our very own Farmicus, has  been gobbling
up iCE members and whisking them  off to the corporate world.  Rumor has it
that Lord Soth, Greater Evil, and Jamie  McCarter have  all joined the team
with  Mr. Mister, bringing  the  total  casualties to five.  When  will the
madness stop?  Post-IPO, we hope.

3.  Update: for those interested, the iCE Thought Police recently caught up
up to Steven Stahlberg, now working for Digital Anvil. What's he been doing
recently, you may  ask?  You  can  see  some of his  handiwork in the intro
cinematic for "Quake 3:Arena", recently  released  by id  Software.  Steven
designed the "thugs", did  the  textures  for  Sarge, created  all  of  the
explosions and  muzzle flashes, and did  some other animations, such as the
falling cigar at the end.  Steven Stahlberg is officially awarded the "Best
Swedish 3D  Animator Working on  Quake 3: Arena to  come  from Hong Kong to
Texas."  The  competition  was  fierce, but he  ended up  taking the prize.

4.  Obviously this was a  quiet  month, but we're still recovering from the
whole  lemon  fiasco.  Don't  worry, we'll be back in a big way to kick off
2000  (which  is  NOT  in  the  next  century  or millenium)!  Have a Merry
Christmas,  Happy  Hanukkah, a Super  Kwankaa, or just  an enjoyable winter
solstice!

5.  Although we want to make an impression, don't wait up through the power
outages,  alien  invasions,  mass  rioting, accidental FBI  assassinations,
exponential function growth, buffer overflows, massive fungus growth, moist
socks, terrorist  attacks, world-wide drunkenness, and also y2k glitches to
deliver you  your  pack  at  midnight on  New Years Eve.  Well, also nobody
volunteered to be sober enough to do it.

-brian

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