I personally use 'password' for my password on sites like Gawker, where I'm being forced to create an account I don't care about. Using 'password' for my password is my note to myself that this is a junk account that I have no interest in. I just don't care if somebody accesses it, period.

I suspect that others do the same thing, and little weight should be given to the strength of passwords recovered from a site such as this.