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The Onion Grows

By Margaret Lyons in News on Nov 30, 2007 6:00PM


Who doesn't love the Onion? God knows we do, and hey — even Neil Steinberg sort of likes it. And that guy knows funny! Anyway, there are two big reasons to love the Onion even more:

First and foremost, their Google map layer — go ahead and play around with it, above — is twenty kinds of amazing. And the company announced today that they're moving their HQ here. Well, business HQ. While the comedy writing folk are still in New York, the CEO, "along with the company’s chief financial officer, the finance team, head of human resources, head of business development and vice-president of print" are all here now. This is mostly an excuse to post that map, which we're obsessed with. Our faves: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Germany, and Nicaragua.