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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 2, 2004 @05:45AM from the kill-me-now dept.

theodp writes "Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. Spike from the East Bay just wants to kiss pretty girls. Two months after computer and canine geeks in San Francisco launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves."

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My dog... by bonytony · 2004-03-02 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Likes to sniff butts!
1. Re:My dog... by wesman83 · 2004-03-02 05:47 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  likes to hump legs
2. Re:My dog... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Your dog is therefore already qualified to be a Slashdot editor.
Dogster.com? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

And here I was thinking it was a dating site for fugly chicks!
The important question.. by grub · 2004-03-02 05:47 · Score: 1, Funny

..do dogs laugh at themselves for being suckered into looking at goatse.cx?

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1. Re:The important question.. by Cruciform · 2004-03-02 06:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Only because they can't get their noses through the screen.
where my bitches at? by SoupGuru · 2004-03-02 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

oh yeah, had to be said. apologies.

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Obviously by wowbagger · 2004-03-02 05:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Obviously, this is the application for which the British are working on smell for email.

However, do you realise how much "dog butt" carts are going to cost?

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Urban Legend Time. by saintlupus · 2004-03-02 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter.

[cue porno bassline]

--saint
1. Re:Urban Legend Time. by vena · 2004-03-02 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  urban legend nothing, i'm from new jersey and knew a girl in highschool who had to change schools after everyone found out how she was enticing her dog into licking certain parts of her body.
  
  not a friend of a friend of a cousin thing, this girl was on my bus.
Two bones... by Genjurosan · 2004-03-02 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

I'll bet you two bones that the gusy that created the site were victims of outsourcing.
In former times they said ... by maxwell+demon · 2004-03-02 05:49 · Score: 4, Funny

... in the net nobody knows you are a dog.
Obviously this site is out to change that.

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My dog's site by superpulpsicle · 2004-03-02 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny

www.microsoft.com

Check it out my dog did a really good job.
Dog Personals by MosesJones · 2004-03-02 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny

WLTM Bitch in Heat for romantic butt sniffing and frenzied humping. Any breed or cross breed is fine, I'm not breedist. Must have own walker and a good turn of speed. I'm a 200 pound Newfoundland so small dogs might not want to apply, unless you have been around a bit.

Likes: Butt sniffing and frenzied humping

Dislikes: Buckets of Cold water

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Well, by pete-classic · 2004-03-02 05:51 · Score: 2, Funny

So much for "on the Internet no one knows you're a dog." :-(

-Peter
1. Re:Well, by dr_dank · 2004-03-02 06:07 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  The slogan for the now defunct pets.com was "because pets can't drive. Now that they can type and work a mouse, the driving thing can't be too far behind...
  
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O Tempora, O Mores! by orthogonal · 2004-03-02 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

[The 21st century's answer to Aristotle, Euripides and Sophocles] launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves.

Ha! Take that, Library of Alexandria!

Guess you don't look so special now, with your dusty old Greek plays and crap, huh?

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Welcome by dnoyeb · 2004-03-02 05:52 · Score: 2, Funny

Welcome to the world of slashdot Dogster...

Let that be a lesson to all of you!
Scented Emails by The_Rippa · 2004-03-02 05:53 · Score: 2, Funny

See, this is why we need to further develop the Scented Email...my dog said it want's to get a wiff of the ass of CutePup316
*ster rehabilitated for 2004? by heironymouscoward · 2004-03-02 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

The coolster suffix for all those dudesters who dream of starting their own boomster sitester.

Catster.com for pussies? Ratster for rodents? How about Hamster.com for those who like smoked pig thighs? Chickster.com for girls?

We can make it even more cool:

Dogsta! Chicksta! Gangsta! Hamsta!

Hey d00d, I'm a Slashsta!

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What's next? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:53 · Score: 1, Funny

...a virtual leg humping machine?
So What? by H8X55 · 2004-03-02 05:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah - I scoffed at the article. Then I read it and scoffed a bit more. Then i went and registered our two dogs. And you know you did the same thing.
No no, that's http://personals.osdn.com by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:53 · Score: 1, Funny

:P
Wonderful! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:54 · Score: 3, Funny

I, for one, would like to welcome our Canine overlords! Woof!
Re:Rant by savagedome · 2004-03-02 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny

This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs

The guy sitting next to me greets me every morning with 'What up dog?'. I figure the story is appropriate.

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DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm) by Asprin · 2004-03-02 06:03 · Score: 4, Funny

I pronouce this idea DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm)!

Why?

No smell-o-vision. Dogs need that.

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All that's missing are...... by GOD_ALMIGHTY · 2004-03-02 06:03 · Score: 2, Funny

really big bags of venture capital, a sock-puppet mascot and some future felons currently employed as stock analysts.

When they outsource it to India, will it spin-off a Cowster.com?

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Did they make that html site by bareman · 2004-03-02 06:03 · Score: 3, Funny

with Doggie Style sheets?
Slashdot hacked? by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · 2004-03-02 06:07 · Score: 3, Funny

Geez don't scare me, a quick glance at the article and I saw this:
Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear

and thought WTF is happening hear?
A simple request... by prescot6 · 2004-03-02 06:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Uhh... Could everybody stop going to the site? It's really feeling the burn of /. and my dog is expecting a really important e-mail from this bitch he met online last week.

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On behalf of Cats by RailGunner · 2004-03-02 06:12 · Score: 2, Funny

I want, nay, I demand equal representation for Cats. Discrimination against cats has gone on too long.. Felines have for far too long been portrayed in film and other media as villians - for example, why was Tom the Cat in the Tom and Jerry cartoons the villians? Why was Sylvester inept and always scared? My cat tells me that she's not taking it, and the claws will come out if they have to!
This could very well be the most important civil rights issue in a long time. ;)
1. Re:On behalf of Cats by RailGunner · 2004-03-02 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Oh - there's a Catster out there, so Cats are equally represented. Damn.. makes the joke a lot less funny.
  I guess all I have now is to channel Roseanna Roseannadanna and say "Never Mind".
i can see it now... by donnyspi · 2004-03-02 06:12 · Score: 2, Funny

...coming soon to match.com:
I am a:
__ man seeking woman
__ woman seeking man
__ man seeking man
__ woman seeking woman
__ dog seeking dog
__ man seeking dog
__ woman seeking dog
__ dog seeking man
__ dog seeking woman
...
A-fucking-men brother by JoeBaldwin · 2004-03-02 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Same here. I wrote a little program which automates installing source packages for stupid people (i.e those that don't want to use the terminal). It was basically just a little thing that could provide a massive bundle of help for many. Indeed-imagine if this were integrated into KDE! Click a .tar.gz icon and watch it compile and install right before your eyes! It could be like RPMs, just without dependency hell. It could be like Portage on any distro. It could be like Debian, but with no need to apt-get -f install, or type in some obscure library name.

But no. Of course, dogs on a fucking website makes more sense than something that could help a lot of people, and a lot of sysadmins.

If anybody thinks the program is a good idea, mail me or put a comment on my blog somewhere. I lost the tarball a while back, but I'm willing to redo it.

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Servers slow by dr_dank · 2004-03-02 06:19 · Score: 4, Funny

Looks like Dogster has been put to sleep.

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This woulda been great for my dog Gus by SnappingTurtle · 2004-03-02 06:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Gus (God rest his beloved soul) was a wonderful little terrier mutt thing. We adopted him when he found him starving in the streets. Although he improved under our care, he was old and sick and never gained full health in the few months we had him before he passed away.
But, ahhh, the girlie dogs loved him! Because Gus had a special passion for using his little dog tongue to please the ladies. It was his favorite passtime. One petstore owner actually had to ask me to stop letting him please the bitches. Too bad, because the bitches had no complaints.
Boy, that woulda made a great social networking page. Rest in peace, Gus, we miss you, and your girlie friends miss you too.

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This is a great site.... by malelder · 2004-03-02 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

For me to poop on!

Sorry :/

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Re:Barking mad by frenetic3 · 2004-03-02 06:51 · Score: 2, Funny

I think 'liking Ruff' that much is illegal in most states. :P

-fren

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Re:Barking mad by Glonoinha · 2004-03-02 07:12 · Score: 2, Funny

The first thought when I read the OP header was 'somebody needs to get laid.'
I was even going to post that, but I know one of you clowns would follow up with 'You're new here, aren't you?'

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Re:The market has decided... by Wee · 2004-03-02 07:19 · Score: 2, Funny

The site itself is not original. The fact that "Catster", "Birdster" or even "Hamster" could be running off this codebase, is.
Well, there you go. That's more than a silver lining: it's the groundwork for a new project. (Assuming that a popular web site is what's you're aiming for.)
If what you're after is to showcase your work and get the word out there about your project, then why not try something like Linux Magazine's Project of the Month? They've had articles by the guys that did Gallery, TightVNC, etc, so you'd be in good company. It'd be a good way to get your project in front of people.
-B

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Re:Rant by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 07:25 · Score: 1, Funny

watch out...here comes the "wambulance"....waaaaaaa.....