Do you know how long ago Gawker dropped them?
they constantly had problems with their redesign and the last update involved removing the hashbangs
I believe there were further tweaks for additional pages that needed to be supported (whereas I had only solved, and most likely not very elegantly, the rudimentary issue) that took additional time before the hash bang removal was actually launched.
I check the site every couple of weeks because I was interested in how the redesign would work out. It seems they eventually got it right, I like it. A lot of the other blogs have home and article pages that are just too heavy and slow.