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The religion of science

By inchiki September 11, 2017 essay, tolerance 0 Comments
Science is not normally considered to be in the same category of thought as religions. And in some ways, it is in a different category. It doesn’t have quite the same ossified structures of most other religions, and it doesn’t have...
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New book: Bleeding Nose Poems

By inchiki September 11, 2017 poetry, shop, uncategorised 0 Comments
Nones. No good can come of it. So here is my new poem book: “Bleeding Nose Poems”. Is that a bit weird? The acronym is BNP, unintentionally.   You can buy it over on Lulu, but better still, send me a...
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Evolution or Revolution

By alaric jones September 11, 2017 democracy, essay 0 Comments
A meritocracy is a kind of evolution, a social evolution. Like biological evolution, its business is to reward the survivors, and winnow out the weak. It is a hard game but the rules are set by Nature herself. For all its...
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Holy Cow

By inchiki July 12, 2017 enlightenment, whimsy 0 Comments
I’ve just agreed to milk one of the neighbour’s cows. Haven’t milked a cow since I was about 6, when I used to hang around with dad when he was on milking duty. Our lovely jersey cow Heidi was a good...
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Using Socioviz and Gephi to map the twitterverse

By alaric jones April 9, 2017 nerdy, whimsy 0 Comments
For quite some time I have wished that Twitter had a native visualization tool that let you see what was trending in real time. There are lists of course, but I’m a visual person and there is so much potential for...
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Hello, Singularity

By inchiki March 17, 2017 whimsy 0 Comments
The singularity seems to be here. It just whooshed past, and we are in a new reality. OK? Of course, the first thing you’ll notice is that we’re all still alive. The world still seems to be here. It wasn’t the...
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Trumpista phenomina

By inchiki February 16, 2017 democracy, essay, tolerance, whimsy 0 Comments
So here we are. This morning I woke up feeling optimistic for the first time in months. So I revisited this old draft post, and decided to make it live, even though things are moving on already. I live on twitter...
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I might be wrong

By inchiki September 28, 2016 whimsy 0 Comments
Doubt is the most potent of thoughts, the most humble. It is ok to look down the skeptical wormhole. You can always look away again later. Poetry is the stink in the compost of decaying thought.  I would like to evolve...
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I’d never eat your shoe

By inchiki June 30, 2016 drunken, inchiki news 0 Comments
A sudden plosm creates echoes. Later i exhume the body of an old pet, and notice that the chickens are all gone. So now is the time for wine and music… the blood on my fingers.. picking up the guitar the...
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Gaia is born of freedom

By alaric jones June 23, 2016 democracy, essay, green 0 Comments
Freedom is a very basic personal instinct. I think all creatures want to be free, free from fear and desire, free from hunger and pain. The protection of key personal freedoms has been central to the rise of civilisation, and this...
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Renovations

By inchiki June 20, 2016 drunken, inchiki news 0 Comments
Taken some new portraits of me as a poetaster, and making images as part of general renovations to the ‘poem library’ and other parts of this site. Tortured or disgruntled? On the red chair in the blue room. With books. Do...
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