Pardon me for a moment of design criticism. Kotaku, along with the rest of the Gawker webring, redesigned its website recently, and it’s pretty messy. Footer information now sits to the right of the main article, but it’s not lined up in any way with the other column. Headlines extend past the main content article, hanging off to the right awkwardly over the new column. If a post has a picture to go with it, the picture floats to the left of the headline, pushing it even further to the side. There are also some new mini-posts that are appear to be just links, but they’re de-emphasized so much in the design that my eyes skipped over them for the first few days. I didn’t let that kind of sloppy layout go to print in my high school newspaper. Gawker’s sites get millions of views a month.