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Hi there – how has your summer been? Ours has been lovely, thanks. Lots of work being done, lots of interactive thinking and plotting and fighting the future, as the X-Files say.

We launched Kashi.com this summer, a month or so ago. We’re so ridiculously excited about this we can’t even tell you. It’s really just the beginning Agile development methodologies are coming home to roost in the advertising world, you’ll just see, and we’re thrilled to be right there.

We also launched It’s a Palm Thing this summer, with Y&R SF. It’s more of an old school Barbarian project, kickin’ it with the super intense illustration, 3D, navigation and Flash. We really like it.

Finally, we have some job openings in Client Service (SF), HR (BOS/NYC) and Creative Management (BOS/NYC). Takin’ us one step beyond into the interactive R&D shop of the future. Join us!

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Ever wonder what kind of art comes out of your words? No? FINE. But if you did, wonder no longer! We just built the site to answer your question. Allow us to introduce you to Kick Art, at sidekick.com A new site we built for T-Mobile and Publicis West. Good times.

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Telephones and the sites that advertise them have changed significantly over the past 150 years. For example, phones are no longer made of fire. Another good example of this is the excellent new site we did with Publicis West for the Sidekick 3. Have a look and enjoy the fine music and illustrations from awesomely talented people like Sean Drinkwater, Geoff Lillemon, and the folks at I Love Dust.

In other news, 'boards magazine put us on something called The It List. From what we understand, it’s a really good list to be on. Thanks for including us, 'boards.

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Hello there! This week we launched a pretty funny site for Virgin Mobile, with our dear friends Mother in New York. Let’s turn our attention to the Mimes – life’s underdogs. They need our help. Please, please, adopt a mime. If you’re on the fence, go to the Mimulator and see just what it’s like to be a Mime. Oh, the humanity.

And here’s another completely amazing site we’ve launched. Interact Ten Ways, for Getty Images. This is an awesome collaboration between Getty, us, and some of the most prestigious design groups out there, like Tomato, Sumona, Less Rain and Great Works. We do the explorations of Memory and Space. And we’re ridiculously proud of it.

In other, more techy news, Techy Toby is speaking at the world’s first Rails Conf, the conference for Ruby on Rails development. We’re ridiculously bullish on Rails, and we believe we’re one of the first firms to use pre-1.0 rails in large, interactive advertising and marketing producton environments. We’ve been having tremendous luck with it, and it’s managed to save our clients a lot of money in the process, and give us one more tool in the “I need it next week” arsenal. Anyway, if you’re curious, check out Toby’s talk at RailsConf 2006.

Finally, we’d like to welcome, belatedly, Rachel Bell to our team as a Sr. Interactive Producer. Rachel comes most recently from the Chopping Block, but in the month we’ve all been together, we’re already realizing she’s secretly been here in spirit the whole time. Welcome!

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Oh. My. God. So much going on. Where to begin? First. Comcastic. We teamed up with Goodby, Number 9, our pal and sound designer Sean T Drinkwater and Erik Natzke to build out this site. TBG was responsible for the High Speed Internet section which entails 5 skills games that will eventually lead players to a tournament for their chance at getting into the Guinness Book of World Records. As a player, you will be able to challenge and chat with other logged in members to compete in the games head to head. Your score will be recorded, making you eligible to become the best mouse user EVERRRRR.

Next. The Passat B6 Minisite, created by our one and only Robert Hodgin, in conjunction with Arnold Worldwide, is live. There is going to be a total of 120 mini-videos that showcase the new features of the car. Right now, there’s about more than a third of them up, but the rest will be incorporated within the next couple of weeks. Check it out!

Third. The Milwaukee’s Best Light Poker Game. Made in conjunction with Mother New York. This is really awesome. Went up on Thursday on our Milbest site, alongside some other Poker-related content, all very fun. Test your poker skills against Poker champ Chris “Jesus” Ferguson:

Fourth! God, we’ve been busy. You know how when you call and we say “oh yeah, it’s pretty busy.” See? We weren’t kidding. Finally, we offer you Boston.com’s tenth anniversary game, Lobstah Bash. Defend boston from a rabid candle and present hurling lobster. Don’t ask. Just play. And be warned. It’s HARD.

IN OTHER NEWS: Gametap, a project we’ve been working on with Mullen, got a nice writeup in The New York Times yesterday. I saw a decent article in AdWeek this week as well, but that one, ahem, didn’t mention your Barbarian friends. We josh. Anyway, if you’ve seen the enigmatic Get Goatz or What Is Adat spots on Adult Swim, you might begin to have some idea what we’re takling about here.

Speaking of Adweek, they did a really nice writeup of the insanely, completely addictive game we did for Saucony with Nail.

Finally, we’d like to welcome Jill as an interactive producer. She was last at Electronic Arts. And we’d like to welcome Cole as our latest rock star Flash designer. We found him on Flickr. No joke. Who says the Internet’s all hype?

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IT IS TIME TO GET YER MEATINS ON. That’s right. Ironic use of the browser shake. You know you love it. We’re not gonna tell you much about this just yet, you have to go dig. But we WILL say we did it with Mullen and those guys are pretty cool

The Birtney Spears Fantasy site is now fully live, and doing a good amount of traffic, coincidentally. Props to Elizabeth Arden and Goodby for the change of pace.

Oh, also, I don’t think I ever showed you the Virgin Mobile Parental Enlightenment Kit. We made this with Mother New York. It’s really funny. You’ll like it.

We’d also like to let you know that we’ve refreshed our job postings, and give a big shout out welcome to Liz Whittaker, our new Senior Producer, who starts this Monday. Liz is an old friend of many of us from our Arnold days, and it’s been a dream of ours to make her a Barbarian for years. This was the third time we tried to hire her, and bless her heart, she finally said yes. Maybe this means she thinks we might actually stay in business now.