The deadline for registering at the early rate for the American Copy Editors Society's national conference in New Orleans has been extended until February 8. That would be tomorrow. 

There is nowhere else that you will find as thoroughgoing an exploration of the craft of editing, with as many experiences practitioners. Alex Cruden's exploration of how readers actually read headlines has exploded many presuppositions. Bill Connolly's "Jimmy's World" has demonstrated how close reading and determined editing could have avoided a major scandal. If you have not been to an ACES conference, or have attended previous conferences and missed these sessions, you still have a chance to enlarge your understanding. 

The conferences are not static. They do not merely repeat past sessions, however meritorious. Want to talk about the balancing act of multiplatform editing that is increasingly our lot? Want to examine the impact of social media on editing? Want to prod the editors of the Associated Press Stylebook about their hoary strictures? There are sessions for that. 

And I haven't even mentioned beignets. 

I've signed up. Whether that's an attraction or a disincentive I'll leave to your decision. But you've got one more day to make the decision at the cheap rate. Make the most of it.