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Gawker, and all Gawker media sites are down from hurricane Sandy, including: Gawker.com, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Lifehacker, Deadspin, Jezebel, & io9.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The Gizmodo data center is still down as a result of <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23sandy">#sandy</a>. Our guys are working hard to get a working version up and working. Stay tuned.</p>&mdash; Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) <a href="https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/263187768031727616" data-datetime="2012-10-30T07:57:08+00:00">October 30, 2012</a></blockquote>

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However, Gizmodo has a backup site in the UK which is accessible at http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/