n. In a product, an intrinsic property that promises to simultaneously satisfy two opposing consumer desires. [Blend of paradoxical and essence.]
—paradessential adj.

Palin is a paradessence, and hence a wildly popular commodity, because she combines the family-centeredness of the ideal suburban Mom with the ruthlessness of a corporate "warrior" in the dog-eat-dog neoliberal economy, or of a hard-core ideologue/foot soldier for the Far Right. She is sort of a perfect combination of June Cleaver and Ilse Koch. She both energizes the GOP's fundamentalist-Christian base (which was previously very suspicious of McCain), and appeals to non-fundamentalist, independent white voters (who find her even more charismatic than Obama — with the added advantage that she's white, to boot). It is probable that, given how gender formations work in America today, so powerful a paradessence would have to appear in the form of a woman, rather than a (heterosexual) man.
—Steven Shaviro, "An Issue That Won't Go Away," The Pinocchio Theory, September 13th, 2008

Many products exhibit a paradoxical essence, or paradessence, in promising to simultaneously satisfy two opposing consumer/buyer desires. 'Products blessed with paradessence somehow combine two mutually exclusive states and satisfy both simultaneously. Ice cream melds eroticism and innocence. Air travel offers sanitised adventure. Amusement parks provide terror and reassurance. Automobiles render drivers reckless and safe. Sneakers grasp earth and help consumers soar free. Muzak is a hybrid of transience and eternity'.
—Aidan O'Driscoll, "Culture, Contradiction and Marketing Pragmatism," Irish Marketing Review, September 9, 2009

The paradessence of coffee is stimulation and relaxation. Every successful ad campaign for coffee will promise both of those mutually exclusive states." Chas snaps his fingers in front of her face. "That's what consumer motivation is about, Ursula. Every product has this paradoxical essence. Two opposing desires that it can promise to satisfy simultaneously. The job of the marketer is to cultivate this schismatic core, this broken soul, at the center of every product."
-Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl, HarperCollins, September 18, 2001

A jaunty wave to reader Laurie Mullikin for letting me know about this term (twice!).

n. The study of the past, present, and projected distribution of wildfires.
—pyrogeographer n.
—pyrogeographical adj.

A key to understanding those consequences is the notion of the "fire regime", where different vegetation has characteristic fires in terms of recurrence, intensity, seasonality and biological effects. Indeed, fire can be thought of as an emergent property of vegetation in the same way that vegetation can be thought of as an emergent property of climates. In other words, Earth has a "pyrogeography".
—David Bowman, "Scorched earth: Wildfires will change the way we live," New Scientist, October 7, 2009

Researchers used thermal-infrared sensor data obtained between 1996 and 2006 from European Space Agency satellites in their study of pyrogeography — the distribution and behavior of wildfire — on a global scale.
—"Climate Change To Spur Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots, Analysis Finds," ScienceDaily, April 8, 2009

—S. N. Sannikov, "Evolutionary pyroecology and pyrogeography of the natural regeneration of Scotch pine," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Forest Fire Research, November 1, 1994

(CHY.mer.uh.kuh) n. The interrelated elements of the economies of China and America, particularly the Chinese supply of credit to America and the American purchase of cheap Chinese goods. [Blend of China and America.]

Americans are born with the consumption gene, and borrow, not earn, their way to the American dream of home and business ownership. Chinese, on the other hand, have the thrift ethos drummed into them from birth. Their Government has continued to pour money into investment in infrastructure and industry for export to drive growth and raise living standards. But the Chinese Government has not built the kind of social safety net and retail financial system that would lead its citizens to save less, consume more and build a vibrant and sustainable domestic market-led model of economic development. Whether they like it or not, China and the US will be stuck with Chimerica for a long time.
—Geoffrey Garrett, "The challenge of Chimerica (PDF)," Sydney Morning Herald, October 31, 2009

"Superfusion" — that's the name of a new book by Zachary Karabell, which describes how "the unique relationship between China and the United States has become the axis of the world economy." It's a catchy concept in a world that struggles to find the terms to keep pace with a rapidly changing economy. It's pretty much identical to another neologism, coined a couple of years ago by the economic historians Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick to describe the Sino-American economic relationship. That one was Chimerica.
—Richard Bernstein, "Chimerica: A Marriage on the Rocks?," The New York Times, November 4, 2009

The defining feature of the current world economy is not an excess of liquidity or a shortage of assets, but the gap between company profits and the level of real interest rates. This wedge between the return on capital and the cost of capital is in large measure attributable to the spectacular rise of what we call "Chimerica": the sum of China, the world's most rapidly growing emerging market, and America, the world's most financially advanced developed economy.
—Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick, "Chimerical? Think Again (PDF)," The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2007

I should note in passing an earlier use of Chimerica in a computer game called Balance of Power, which first appeared in late 1989. In the game, "Chimerica" (in this case, a blend of chimera and America and pronounced ky.MEER.uh.kuh) refers to a fictional Latin American country with the ''body of El Salvador, neck of Nicaragua, claws of Cuba, head of Haiti.''

pp. Gathering information, recommendations, and other feedback from a trusted group of online peers. Also: friend-sourcing, friend sourcing.
—friendsource v.
—friendsourcer n.

Chorus, which is free, allows you to see which apps that your friends have downloaded and rated highly. It then uses algorithms to make recommendations based on those preferences. The idea, Mr. Jha said, is that app suggestions aren't too far off from film or restaurant recommendations — people want informal endorsements from people they trust have good taste.
—Jenna Wortham, "Friendsourcing the Quest for iPhone Apps," The New York Times, November 3, 2009

Jeff Howe has promoted the term crowdsourcing, which emphasize the potential of internet communities in developing knowledge. Friendsourcing in some way can be seen as opposition to crowdsourcing. Friendsourcing is based on the potential of relatively small networks of friends, which have similar interests and common professions. There is no wisdom of the crowd, but wisdom of a carefully collected network of people, which becomes a high quality source of information.
—Marcin Wilkowski, "Friendsourcing on Twitter (for academic purposes)," Historia i Media, September 30, 2009

The other night, I said to Jeff, "I wish I could share my googling with my Twitter list, so they'd know what I'm trying to accomplish, and they could jump in." That's friendsourcing. And when I need help, I am looking more and more to a blend of humans and machines. True cyborgs.
—Chris Brogan, "Friendsourcing and FriendHelp," ChrisBrogan.com, February 11, 2007

The following excerpt is from the CV of web developer Michael Bernstein, a document that, according to the Google, is dated October 21, 2006 (which would, if true, make it the earliest citation):

n. A person who competes in races that combine running with beer drinking.
—beer mile n.
—beer miling pp.

He belongs to a generation of runners whose carefree attitudes have fuelled the popularity of running clubs that prove, according to Canadian Running magazine editor Michal Kapral, "we're not a bunch of prudes." They include beer milers, who claim a fair number of frat boys but also serious runners.
—Hayley Mick, "A beer before a run? Some serious runners say yes ," The Globe and Mail, October 29, 2009

The event usually happens at a dark, secluded track, away from campus security or city police — sometimes it might even take place on a farmer's field in the country — but no matter the venue, the challenge remains the same. The contest calls for runners to chug four beers (three for the women's event) at regular 400m intervals during a mile race, in an attempt to crown the fastest beer miler.
—Mihira Lakshman, "Beer and running — an unlikely pairing," Canadian Running, October 29, 2009

The same scenario as in '04 played out again this year with a similar cast of characters plus about 20 additional idiots (there seems to be no shortage) but this time adherence to the rules (yes, there are actually rules) listed on www.beermile.com became part of the obvious challenge that includes four 12-ounce beer (note, Canadians don't pluralize the word and, after all, aren't they the experts?) and 4-laps around a track. Those who had participated for the first time in '04 were one year wiser and wanted to officially carve their name into history. Only by strictly adhering to the rules would this happen. Many claimed to be a "beer miler" but no one had yet become the genuine article.
—"Annual Encinitas Beer Mile," Multisports.com, January 1, 2006 (est.)

n. Security practices and protocols related to neural interfaces that enable a person to control computers and other machines using thoughts.

Despite the risks, Kohno said, most new devices aren't created with security in mind. Neural engineers carefully consider the safety and reliability of new equipment, and neuroethicists focus on whether a new device fits ethical guidelines. But until now, few groups have considered how neural devices might be hijacked to perform unintended actions. This is the first time an academic paper has addressed the topic of "neurosecurity," a term the group coined to describe their field.
—Hadley Leggett, "The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?," Wired Science, July 9, 2009

Advances like these will rely on signals such as are used in household wireless networking as the most convenient means of communication between the thing in your brain and the outside world. Wireless networking is the facilitator — as well as the menace, when viewed from a security perspective. Cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers, for example, have been shown by security experts to be vulnerable to malicious hacking, though the threat has so far been fortunately largely theoretical. Yet neurosecurity has hitherto merited little attention.
—"Think, hack," The Indian Express, July 13, 2009

In other words, it looks as though the transhumanist era is going to be a Golden Age for CIOs and their skill sets. Even in the case of problems for which CIOs do not have immediate solutions, they will probably be the right people to think about the answers. Take, for example, the extremely vexing problem of neurosecurity. A brain running on a network will obviously be an extremely attractive target for everyone from outright criminals to bored hackers to spammers. Why worry about actually earning a promotion when you can just write a worm that will configure your superior's brain so that the very thought of you triggers his or her pleasure centers?
—Fred Hapgood, "More Than Human," CIO Magazine, December 15, 2004

The "academic paper" referenced by the Wired Science citation, above, is Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices, by Tamara Denning, Yoky Matsuoka, and Tadayoshi Kohno, which was published in the July 2009 issue of Neurosurgical Focus. The Wired Science article claims the authors of this paper coined the term but, as the earliest citation shows, the term predates the paper by nearly five years.

pp. Spreading the resources of a company or person too thin.
—peanut-butter v.

Still, a former Google executive observed, "Google could do fewer products and make fewer investments. They are doing too many and peanut-buttering everything."
—Ken Auletta, "Searching for Trouble" (subscription required), The New Yorker, October 12, 2009

There are fewer than 70 days until June 30. We're having trouble envisioning anything more than a slap-dash, spread-too-thin peanut buttering of something for every neighborhood. But let's see. Something good could fall right into place.
—"Seattle Parks: Levy not a lock," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 24, 2008

Between state policy making and local control lies this nebulous thing that I would call regional reform. I would like to take a look at regional reform in a deep sense for schools and stop peanut-buttering ourselves out, as my mother used to say, into all these little quasi-successful efforts that aren't getting us anywhere.
—"Educating ourselves for a high-tech future," The Seattle Times, December 15, 1995

The use of the telling phrase "as my mother used to say" (see the Earliest Citation, above) makes any neologist tremble because it often means that the term it's referring to is actually quite old, thus making a mockery of the neologist's alleged "earliest" citation.

As a possible hint in that direction, I also found the following citation from 1987, although it seems to be using the phrase peanut-buttering in a positive sense:

n. A store that opens in an empty retail location and then deliberately closes after a few weeks or months. Also: pop-up retailer.

[A] growing number of merchants are opening shops and abruptly shutting them down soon after — on purpose. These quickie retail operations — known as pop-ups — are showing up throughout Southern California and around the nation, filling in the gaps at recession-battered shopping centers for a fraction of the regular rents. Once limited to seasonal shops and dusty liquidation centers, pop-up stores are now being opened by some of the nation's biggest retailers.
—Andrea Chang, "'Pop-up' stores becoming an overnight sensation," Los Angeles Times, October 17, 2009

Rising up from the graves of recently departed big-box stores, a wave of ghoulish retailers has descended upon the Chicago area...."We like the big boxes like the Circuit City stores or the Linens 'n Things that may have gone out of business," said Don Rose, director of marketing for Halloween USA, a Michigan-based company with more than 250 temporary Halloween stores in the U.S....The fly-by-night costumers have proliferated over the past several years, driven in part by a glut of vacancies and a handful of aggressive national retailers. Popping up for about two months — usually from Labor Day through Nov. 1 — the low-rent, high-profile tenants have become an integral part of the holiday, which is taking a hit from the recession but is still expected to generate nearly $5 billion in nationwide sales for the season...."Pop-up" stores represent a big trend in retailing because they're an efficient way to attract shoppers and attention, particularly when so many malls have vacancies. This Christmas season, Toys R Us plans to roll out about 340 temporary Holiday Express stores.
—Robert Channick, "Halloween stores," Chicago Tribune, October 17, 2009

At the cheap and cheerful end of the fashion spectrum, mass-marketer Target — "Tar-jay" to the giddy cognoscenti — opened a "pop-up" store for the launch of Isaac Mizrahi's house line last year for a limited six-week run.)
—Karen von Hahn, "Guerrilla retailing," The Globe and Mail, February 28, 2004

An enthusiastic wave to reader Laurie Mullikin for passing along this timely phrase.

n. A culture in which many people write about or display — and other people to take pleasure in reading or watching — the minutiae of their daily lives.

Mr. Niedzviecki believes many people welcome surveillance because the collapse of community has left them feeling disconnected and alone. Surveillance, he says, is part of the shift from pop culture to what he calls peep culture. "We derive more and more of our entertainment from watching ourselves and others go about our lives," he says. "We're going to enter a point where we become quite addicted to being watched."
—Don Butler, "Are we addicted to being watched?," The Ottawa Citizen, January 31, 2009

There is ethical challenge here, of having to be worthy of one's own life and the events that constitute it. It means that if you do want to share, then you'd better live in a way that is worthy of sharing. I believe this is what Cathie meant by everyone living in glass houses. This is not about living an exciting or hedonistic existence, but of living a reflective and satisfying one. Therefore, if there is a trend toward so-called 'peep culture', then it is not about the tabloidisation of everyday life into bite-sized titilation [sic] of 140char or less, but a far more ethical mode of existence.
—Glen Fuller, "Ethics of Sharing, Adulthood and Online Culture," Event Mechanics, September 30, 2009

Elaine Katzenberger at City Lights acquired U.S. rights to a new book by Hal Niedzviecki titled Peep Culture: How Pop Became Peep and We Learned to Love Spying on Our Neighbors. Niedzviecki, founder and fiction editor of Broken Pencil, a magazine on zine culture, will explore the way pop culture has conditioned us to betray our own secrets and invade the space of strangers.
—Matthew Thornton, "Deals," Publishers Weekly, September 3, 2007

Peep culture is a play on pop culture, a phrase that entered the language around 1959 (although the longer form popular culture is surprisingly older, with a first OED cite from 1854). It was coined by the writer Hal Niedzviecki, who therefore features in two or the three citations here (although the phrase does show up quite often without referencing Mr. Niedzviecki). To avoid confusion, I should point out that the earliest citation mentions a forthcoming book named "Peep Culture: How Pop Became Peep and We Learned to Love Spying on Our Neighbors," but the actual title of the book (which came out earlier this year) is The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors.

n. An aggressively high offer for a house, particularly one made before the official date that offers are to be accepted.

This past week I was about to preview a condo in downtown Toronto with the understanding that all offers on this particular condo were to be presented the following Thursday. That was fine my client was comfortable with that particular situation. However on the drive to the condo I was informed that there was going to be a bully offer presented on it at 6:00pm. It was now 5:30pm. My client had yet to see the unit.
—"The Bully Offer," MyCondoNetwork.com, August 16, 2009

Q: What if the seller asks for offers on a certain date? Can someone else put in an offer ahead of you?

A: Yes, this is known as a pre-emptive offer or "bully offer."
—Ellen Roseman, "Book aims to forearm buyers for bidding wars," The Toronto Star, September 9, 2009

Toronto's blazingly hot real estate market has brought out the bullies. In recent weeks, some prospective home buyers, sellers and agents say they have been blindsided by what they call the "bully offer" — a tactic some purchasers are using to circumvent the bidding war. No sooner is a house listed than the "bully" arrives with a certified cheque made out for an amount far above the asking price, hoping that the sellers will be so tempted by the eye-popping bid that they will accept it on the spot.
—Carolyn Leitch, "The bully moves in," The Globe and Mail, June 1, 2007