more blends

[Laurence Horn]

In the tradition of "vook", we also evidently 
have the "vodcast", which I suppose is on some 
level a second-order blend:

>>Call for Papers:
>>
>>CO2: The Second Online Consciousness Conference
>>
>>February 2010
>>
>>Please post and distribute widely; appologies for cross-posting
>>
>>I am pleased to announce the call for papers 
>>for the second Consciousness Online conference. 
>>We have a very exciting conference planned for 
>>this year with some new features (e.g. podcasts 
>>and vodcasts of presentations) and two great 
>>invited sessions; details to follow at the 
>>conference website ( 
>>http://consciousnessonline.wordpress.com).
>>
>>Special Session on Higher Order Consciousness 
>>(from the NYU 
>><http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/object/philo.newsevents.workshoppas> 
>>workshop on perception, action and the self)

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Then on a distantly related note, we have Bud 
Light's "grooler", which is apparently an actual 
product, contrary to what I inferred from the 
übersilly commercials.  Cf. 
http://gizmodo.com/5359818/bud-lights-grooler-is-actually-a-real-product.

LH

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