Gawker media and all of it’s web sites went blank this week, due to a hideous kludge because some engineer somewhere thought that it might be a good idea to have web visitors download a huge chunk of javascript to save a teeny bit of server resources and perhaps work around the statelessness of the web. At least that’s the only reasons I can think of. Best quote to describe the situation is “whoever set this up this way is a complete fucking moron.”