{"id":5796,"date":"2004-07-16T07:06:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T14:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/16\/masters-of-their-own-domain.html"},"modified":"2004-07-16T07:06:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T14:06:25","slug":"masters_of_thei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/16\/masters_of_thei.html","title":{"rendered":"Masters of their own domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go to the website <a href=\"http:\/\/boston04.com\" target=\"_blank\">Boston04.com<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll get to the official Democratic National Convention website.<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/boston2004.com\" target=\"_blank\">Boston2004.com<\/a> (or <a href=\"http:\/\/boston2004.org\" target=\"_blank\">.org<\/a>), and you&#8217;ll get the web page for Noreascon, the 62nd Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention), <em>also <\/em>being held in Boston this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n<p>So, courtesy of the Worldcon folks, here&#8217;s some <a title=\"Noreascon Four Not the DNC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.noreascon.org\/not-the-dnc.html\">Reasons Why Noreascon Four is Not the DNC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re not $10 million over budget. We don&#8217;t even have a $10 million budget.\n<li>Our promises for the future are <em>supposed <\/em>to be fiction.\n<li>The folks wandering around with walkie-talkies are likely to be helpful and friendly.\n<li>The slogans on our buttons are actually funny, and many of them are about cats.\n<li>When someone tries to sell you something, it&#8217;s because they are a dealer in the dealers&#8217; room.\n<li>In a word-association test, we respond to &#8220;Fahrenheit&#8221; with &#8220;451.&#8221;\n<li>We are allowed to accept donations from non-resident aliens\u2026but our aliens may have tentacles and extra feet.\n<li>Some of our attendees have written books <em>about  <\/em>ghosts. Some of theirs have had books written <em>by <\/em>ghosts.\n<li>There&#8217;s much conversation about &#8220;character&#8221; at both conventions, but we&#8217;ve got a lot more to say about &#8220;plot&#8221; and &#8220;setting&#8221;, too.<\/ul>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/07\/16\/differences_between_.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to the website Boston04.com, and you&#8217;ll get to the official Democratic National Convention website. 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