Sandy Drowns Jalopnik, Site Advocates Wife Swapping While Down

One of the many victims of Sandy: Jalopnik. Along with the other servers of the Gawker network, Jalopnik joined the fate of some ten thousand websites served by 150 data centers on the East Coast that were drowned out by the ferocious storm. We wish our colleagues at Jalopnik all the best and a speedy comeback. Also, we recommend to hunt down whoever changed Jalopnik's redirect from http://updates.jalopnik.com to http://w.jalonik.com, a site that offers "wife swapping", and "colon cleansing" along with more traditional fare such as "body kits" and "Cadillac Escalade." According to the New York Times, the Gawker sites share a common Internet service provider, Datagram, housed in the financial district in Lower Manhattan, which lost power on Monday evening.  TTAC's servers are in a secure location in Canada, and its editors are dispersed over multiple continents. Update: The hijack of Jalopnik's emergency site appears to be fixed.  Jalopnik now redirects to the proper ersatz-Jalopnik page that sports familiar robust language like "The asshole spreading false info on Twitter revealed."   from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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