Do not meddle in the affairs of fuckwits - for they are unsubtle and will wind you up.
A catalogue of fuckwittage of all kinds will appear here. Come back, contribute, comment and so forth. If you want to be kept abreast of news here, mail announce@fuckwittage.org.
For instance, Mary just got off the phone with Currys CoverPlan service, where the hold music was Tell me lies (tell me sweet little lies) by Fleetwood Mac. Joy. If you are in the UK, have a go yourself on 0870 752 0279 (beware, calls may be charged at who-knows-what, national rate most likely).
Obligatory small print: I promise not to pass your address to anyone else, or to use it for any purpose other than to tell you fuckwittage.org has real content, then I'll delete it (unless you tell me not to explicitly)
This whole place will be divided into a number of different areas, each covering a particular field of egregious behaviour. My plan is to let folk contribute as much as they want, and have different people in charge of different sections. For now, there are a few skeleton sites:
You'll be able to add your own rants and such like here in a bit. For now, though, you might like to put pictorial fuckwittage up on the collaborative gallery site I'm running.
The focus here is both on exposing fuckwittage, and also on finding ways to fix it - either by writing up sensible solutions to the problem, or where they are already known by publically ridiculing the folk who are still getting it wrong.
I'd also like to know how folk pronounce the word - Helen Fielding (author of Bridget Jones' Diary, which has done much to popularise the word) seems to prefer the Francophonic form. To me to rhyme with heritage seems more obvious. A poll with proper pronouncable forms will follow eventually.
I'm going to switch to a slightly bloggish interface, which will encourage me to add a blog module to the Web-toolkit we're developing at Future i. Stay tuned. I'm still going to write up those articles too - and you're welcome to do the same...
My favourite quote of the moment:
Resource constraints limit our ability to do things in the most efficient way (ironically)
Which was given to me as a real reason for fuckwitted behaviour. Grrr...