Wow. It’s hard to believe that it’s been over three months since we last pulled ourselves out of our actionscript induced stupor and posted to this blog. It’s been one heck of an augmented reality hangover.

But besides bringing sexy back, a lot of cool stuff has happened in squidder land:

For one, we’re coming out of the closet. That’s right: we’re all proud creative developers at the Washington, DC office of AKQA. We’re going to start talking a little more openly about our daily office work, so hopefully that means more interesting topics for you to read and more funny pictures for us to make.

And while we certainly don’t speak for the whole company when we post here (there are many other, far more talented developers who work in our offices all over the world who probably don’t want their good names tarnished by pictures of unicorns and Star Trek: TNG references), we do feel confident in saying that we’re the best looking flash devs this side of tellTarget.

For two, we launched a most excellent AR campaign for USPS, call the Virtual Box Simulator. It’s been getting some very nice attention and we’re proud to have found something useful to do with all of our experiments here.

Three: We got picked up both by Adobe in Japan and and PAGE in Germany. We sure fooled them.

Four: This guy played our drums with his face. This is why we get up in the morning.

Anyway, we’ve learned some good lessons in the past three months, but we have to clean out the 4,525 spam comments that we received since we last logged into WordPress. After that, we’ll be in the sharing mood, so watch this space.

If there’s one thing that could be a ton cooler in AS3, its the audio capabilities. Yeah, we’ve all had fun making spectrum analyzers, but that was back in the hazy, drug riddled days of 2007. This is 2008 and 2008 demands better audio stability and features.

Crazy sounding, I know (I know!). And a few months ago, I would have told you that it was in fact crazy. But that was before I found baluga.net’s webthumb.