diff --git a/bridges/Gawker.php b/bridges/Gawker.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d13522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bridges/Gawker.php
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+<?php
+/**
+*
+* @name Gawker media
+* @description A bridge allowing access to any of the numerous Gawker media blogs (Lifehacker, deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, and so on
+* @update 27/03/2014
+* @use1(site="site")
+*/
+class Gawker extends HttpCachingBridgeAbstract{
+	private $uri;
+	private $name;
+
+    public function collectData(array $param){
+        if (empty($param['site'])) {
+			trigger_error("If no site is provided, nothing is gonna happen", E_USER_ERROR);
+        } else {
+			$this->uri = $param['site'];
+        }
+        $html = file_get_html($this->getURI()) or $this->returnError('Could not request '.$this->getURI(), 404);
+        $this->message("loaded HTML from ".$this->getURI());
+        // customize name 
+        $this->name = $html->find('title', 0)->innertext;
+        foreach($html->find('.main-column') as $content) {
+            $this->parseContent($content);
+       }
+    }
+
+	public function parseContent($content) {
+		foreach($content->find('.headline') as $headline) {
+			foreach($headline->find('a') as $articleLink) {
+                // notice we only use article from this gawker site (as gawker like to see us visit other sites)
+                if(strpos($articleLink->href, $this->getURI())>=0) {
+    				$this->parseLink($articleLink);
+                }
+			}
+		}
+	}
+    
+    public function parseLink($infoLink) {
+        $item = new Item();
+        $item->uri = $infoLink->href;
+        $item->title = $infoLink->innertext;
+        try {
+            // now load that uri from cache
+//            $this->message("loading page ".$item->uri);
+            $articlePage = str_get_html($this->get_cached($item->uri));
+            if(is_object($articlePage)) {
+                $content = $articlePage->find('.post-content', 0);
+                $this->defaultImageSrcTo($content, $this->getURI());
+                $item->content = $content->innertext;
+                // http://stackoverflow.com/q/22715928/15619
+                $publishtime = $articlePage->find('.publish-time', 0)->getAttribute("data-publishtime");
+                // don't know what I'm doing there, but http://www.epochconverter.com/programming/functions-php.php#epoch2date recommends it
+                $item->timestamp = $this->js_to_unix_timestamp($publishtime);
+                $vcard = $articlePage->find('.vcard', 0);
+                if(is_object($vcard)) {
+    				$item->name = $vcard->find('a', 0)->innertext;
+                }
+            } else {
+                throw new Exception("cache content for ".$item->uri." is NOT a Simple DOM parser object !");
+            }
+        } catch(Exception $e) {
+            $this->message("obtaining ".$item->uri." resulted in exception ".$e->getMessage().". Deleting cached page ...");
+            // maybe file is incorrect. it should be discarded from cache
+            $this->remove_from_cache($item->url);
+            $item->content = $e->getMessage();
+        }
+        $this->items[] = $item;
+    }
+
+	function js_to_unix_timestamp($jsTimestamp){
+	  return $jsTimestamp/1000; 
+	}	
+
+    public function getName(){
+        return $this->name;
+    }
+
+    public function getURI(){
+        return $this->uri;
+    }
+
+    public function getCacheDuration(){
+        return 3600; // 1h
+    }
+    public function getDescription(){
+        return "Gawker press blog content.";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/lib/Bridge.php b/lib/Bridge.php
index 4467da0..aeaba6f 100644
--- a/lib/Bridge.php
+++ b/lib/Bridge.php
@@ -109,33 +109,54 @@ abstract class HttpCachingBridgeAbstract extends BridgeAbstract {
             $filename = $filename."index.html";
         }
         if(file_exists($filename)) {
-            // $this->message("loading cached file from ".$filename." for page at url ".$url);
+//            $this->message("loading cached file from ".$filename." for page at url ".$url);
 			// TODO touch file and its parent, and try to do neighbour deletion
-			$currentPath = $filename;
-			while(!$pageCacheDir==$currentPath) {
-				touch($currentPath);
-				$currentPath = dirname($currentPath);
-			}
+            $this->refresh_in_cache($pageCacheDir, $filename);
 		} else {
-            // $this->message("we have no local copy of ".$url." Downloading !");
+//            $this->message("we have no local copy of ".$url." Downloading to ".$filename);
             $dir = substr($filename, 0, strrpos($filename, '/'));
             if(!is_dir($dir)) {
+//				$this->message("creating directories for ".$dir);
                 mkdir($dir, 0777, true);
             }
             $this->download_remote($url, $filename);
         }
         return file_get_contents($filename);
     }
+    
+    private function refresh_in_cache($pageCacheDir, $filename) {
+		$currentPath = $filename;
+		while(!$pageCacheDir==$currentPath) {
+			touch($currentPath);
+			$currentPath = dirname($currentPath);
+		}
+    }
 
     public function download_remote($url , $save_path) {
         $f = fopen( $save_path , 'w+');
-        $handle = fopen($url , "rb");
-        while (!feof($handle)) {
-            $contents = fread($handle, 8192);
-            fwrite($f , $contents);
+        if($f) {
+            $handle = fopen($url , "rb");
+            if($handle) {
+                while (!feof($handle)) {
+                    $contents = fread($handle, 8192);
+                    if($contents) {
+                        fwrite($f , $contents);
+                    }
+                }
+                fclose($handle);
+            }
+            fclose($f);
         }
-        fclose($handle);
-        fclose($f);
+    }
+    
+    public function remove_from_cache($url) {
+        $simplified_url = str_replace(["http://", "https://", "?", "&", "="], ["", "", "/", "/", "/"], $url);
+    	// TODO build this from the variable given to Cache
+		$pageCacheDir = __DIR__ . '/../cache/'."pages/";
+        $filename =  realpath($pageCacheDir.$simplified_url);
+        $this->message("removing from cache \"".$filename."\" WELL, NOT REALLY");
+        // filename is NO GOOD
+//        unlink($filename);
     }
     
     public function message($text) {