Some links to share today, so i’ll indulge.

If you feel like an activist, or you have a cause to defend (like protesting the closing of your favourite chipshop, or the fact the iphone will not be on sale the 11th of july – these are real life examples), you can set an internet petition in no time thanks to iPetition. Remains to be seen whether an internet petition carries that much weight, but you never know.

To continue in the activist track: dotherightthing.com a forum/groupsblog thingie to discuss companies’ethics. If i understand correctly, news items are added by members, and then given weight (importance) by other members. This is a way to give feedback to said companies.

On a totally different tack, everyone’s who’s doing anything with Rails knows hat version 2.1 is coming out. This has been partly covered in Railscasts, but now a certain Carlos Brando also wrote a free ebook on the subject. Kudos.

You all know OpenID – well, OpenID is under attack from a security point of view: it would be vulnerable to phishing. To be fair, that’s true of any web app – if your DNS is funky, then you’re liable to give out your username and password to any old maffia machine.

OpenID makes this more of a risk in the fact that one password rules them all. But then again, nobody with any ounce of common sense would access his bank account (or other important stuff) with the same password they use for, say, Flickr, or even their mail account.