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Build Your Own Dog Wagon

Posted by michael on from the mush dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Philip Greenspun isn't the only Web-site innovator with an interest in dogs, airplanes, photography, and travel. While Kyler Laird appears to operate on a budget that's a couple of orders of magnitude lower, his description of adventures in dog-cart development exhibit the same virtues of technical specificity and lucidity."

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  1. old news by rd4tech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lately, the cool thing to do is to put some nanotech together and build yourself your own DOG :)

  2. But what about.... by CmdrMooCow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hrm.

    Yeah, all those dogs in a RAID array... sure to run fast.

    Or reliable.

    Or some combination thereof.

    1. Re: But what about.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah- and just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.

    2. Re: But what about.... by secolactico · · Score: 5, Funny

      Wouldn't that be a "Beowoof" cluster?

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  3. Budget... by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    While Kyler Laird appears to operate on a budget that's a couple of orders of magnitude lower,

    Well, his web server sure doesn't show it.

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  4. already by CmdrMooCow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Already slashdotted by post #2?

    Egads. Its late on a Friday night. I guess only people who have nowhere to be this weekend would be on slashdot.

    oh wait....

    1. Re:already by adipocere · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This paragraph pretty clearly states why the Slashdot editors should try to seek permission, or at least alert the site owners, before linking. We all think it is cute when a site bursts into flames as we all hit it simultaneously, but a lot of small businesses, hobbyists, and so forth, cannot afford to have some giant T3s attached to the latest and best clustered servers on the off-chance that Slashdot would link to them.

      However, when it does happen, it's like a Lottery of Suck: sites go down, fees get hiked, business could be lost. A great deal of Slashdotters work for small businesses who simply could not withstand the hit.

      Nor is there a good excuse to NOT warn first, just the eagerness to "get the big scoop" on a site that is only vaguely journalistic. Slashdot could offer a "why don't we cache this page for you?" or ask for permission to reprint a page. It seems like the fair thing to do.

      Before you laugh, consider that people have made modules for Apache, last I saw, specifically to deal with sudden slashdotting by throttling based on referrer. Now, if the open source community sees a need for it, it probably is a valid need.

  5. teaser by spektricide · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can't believe I stayed awake another whole 30 minutes just to see this post. My timing of fresh articles sucks

  6. Kyler Laird is creepy by Karma+Star · · Score: 3, Funny

    I knew him back in college. He used to stalk my roommate, and things got so bad that she needed to get a restraining order against him. Eventually, she transferred to a different school...

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    1. Re:Kyler Laird is creepy by dogfart · · Score: 2, Funny
      Just curious, was your roomate a retriever or a terrier?

      Kyler might have had certain breed-specific obsessions. Stalking is always bad manners, and generally well-trained canines do not indulge in this behavior.

      I'm glad your roomate managed to get him restrained. Hopefully it was a harness and not just a collar.

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  7. I started thinking about these things 25 years ago by kfg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was sitting on my front porch and a guy went by "walking" his dog by letting it pull him along on his bicycle. The little lightbulb thingy went off in my head (Ow! Stop it.)

    Since that time I've "designed" several variants, also in my head, but I ran into a slight problem on approaching the development phase.

    I don't particularly care for dogs.

    My cats don't particularly care for the idea of being hitched up to a cart either.

    And thus technology is set back decades by the peculiarities of a single man.

    Oh, yeah, you can also already buy one commercially, so it's not like it's really a novel idea (mushers use them to keep their dogs in shape during the summer season. My idea is to make an ultralight one specifically tuned for running in the modern urban enviroment. Carbon fiber, racing bicycle wheels, that sort of thing).

    Here's an example:

    Dog Cart

    KFG

  8. Good grief by Kohath · · Score: 5, Funny

    You don't need a wagon when your dog is a World War I flyng ace.

  9. Has to be said.... by niktesla · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like his server is running on a chihuahua.

    Sorry, let the karma burn...

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  10. It had to be said., I can imagine a by mpn14tech · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beo woof woof woof of those.

  11. My personal variant. by Ossk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This reminds me...

    Several years ago we got our first dog, an Alaskan Malemute. They're bred to pull sleds, so I decided to "walk" her while wearing my roller blades. The results were exhilarating. The only way for me to stop once she got up to speed was to let go of the leash, fall down, or wait for her to stop/turn. Cats coming into view proved very dangerous.

    Who needs roller coasters when you've got a dog and skates?

  12. All you need to go along with the wagon... by Teddy+Beartuzzi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is Techno Trousers to pull them!