Friends don't let friends not use OpenID

ATTENTION: If you have an account with one of these sites, you can sign up at my site (and in fact any Drupal site) without a username or password:

AOL

openid.aol.com/screenname

Blogger

blogname.blogspot.com

Flickr

www.flickr.com/photos/username

LiveDoor

profile.livedoor.com/username

LiveJournal

username.livejournal.com

Orange (France Telecom)

http://openid.orange.fr/

SmugMug

username.smugmug.com

Technorati

technorati.com/people/technorati/username

Vox

member.vox.com

Yahoo

yahoo.com

WordPress.com

username.wordpress.com

That's from the official list, so check that for the most recent info. There's also another very important one that ain't there:

Google

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id

If you have an account at one of these places, you've got an OpenID.

What does that mean for me?

If you register for an account here, you don't have to come up with/repeat your username and password. Just plug in the URL, and you're good.

What do I get from registering here?

Uh, you... get to comment with your pretty pretty name attached? To be honest, I hadn't thought that far in advance. Maybe I'll lift some commenting requirements like the CAPTCHA or forced previews.

Maybe I'll mail you a cracker or something.

What if I have accounts at multiple places?

That's okay, they can all be linked in the settings panel.

What inspired this? Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow has this beautiful login/registration system: if you plug in your OpenID, that's it, you're a registered user. It'll remember you, but if you logout, you can log back in again with any of your OpenID URLs.

After having to jump through hoops to get registered anywhere, I eventually stopped registering at sites because I was so sick of making new credentials. At sign up, I had the lovely options of:

1. making a new username and password (which I would eventually forget), or
2. repeating an old username/password (which is insecure as all hell).

After that crap, Stack Overflow's system, due in part to OpenID, was a breath of fresh air.

NEVER MAKE ANOTHER CRAPPY USERNAME/PASSWORD PAIR. OPENID FO' LIFE!