The Onion sells out.

As an occasional reader of The Onion, I was very disappointed to see that the site now has no less than three very annoying adds - a premercial on the main page that loads when you navigate to the site, a top column animate gif (which is like 100px high) and a fast animated gif pillar ad. All these ads are very annoying as they are 1) too noisy and 2) too prominent.

Don't think I'll be returning to this once amusing, contra-culture site.