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Driving into work this morning, I heard an ad for Internet Explorer 7 on the local San Francisco Bay Area news station, KCBS.

I’m reconstructing from memory, so this is semi-accurate:

SOUNDFX: DRIPPING WATER, TRAFFIC NOISE, HEELS CLICKING ON PAVEMENT.
MAN: Psssst, hey lady.

WOMAN: Uh, yeah?

MAN: Internet Explorer 7 is here.

That was it. No call to action. Just the above exchange.

Driving back from work this evening, I heard an interview with two of the writers for SFist on the local alternative station, Live 105. It went on, and on, and on. They both have day jobs but are loving the blogging gig a long time.

The fulcrum of Web Twenny is embedded here. Still it was novel to experience expressions and actors of the Web in a medium I associate almost entirely now with meatspace. To me it says: we’ve become mundane, at least in the Bay Area. I think that’s a great sign of how understandable and ubiquitous the online experience has become.

(And as I’m writing this I realize I still need to train the spellchecker in Firefox 2 on William Gibson’s contributions to the vernacular, as meatspace lingers forlornly, redlined, unrecognized. ;-)