flacfs, again

I wrote a piece on a software that exposes a flac file as a virtual file system a few years back, and promised that I would release the code when it was “fit for release.” Left to my own devices, that would never happen. So… someone came across the post and asked about the code. [...]

“A lawyer should seek the truth”

Mason shook his head. “Why not?” Drake asked. “Because,” Mason said, “it isn’t the truth.” “Don’t be naive,” Drake said. “A lot of criminal lawyers I know don’t pay much attention to the truth. Often when the truth would get a client stuck a good lawyer has to resort to something else.” “I’m afraid of [...]

Willful blindness

C. P. Surendran thinks the protest over Rushdie’s aborted India visit is without merit, and that it the invite to him might even be a cunning publicity stunt on the part of the organizers of the lit. festival. He then uses the stale and irrelevant why-didn’t-the-protestors-protest-this-or-that argument to dismiss the legitimacy of the protest. Apparently, [...]

The Theory of Hurt Sentiments

“Hurt sentiments” are a strange thing. X decides he does not like what Y has written, or said, or done, and then goes to court about it. It’s not as if he was thrashed by Y; more like he thrashed himself and then held Y responsible for his own actions. The idea of libel/slander/defamation, and [...]

Permissible

A comment on IMDb: I watched Death Sentence while it was playing on TV on the channel FX. I found it almost hilariously disturbing that people were getting shot and dying bloody deaths on screen, but in the meantime mofos were being edited to mother sucker and freaking. And the f word was being changed [...]