Ep 1092: Where we're monitoring that scan you just interfaced Video

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Ep 1092: Where we're monitoring that scan you just interfaced
Created: 07/19/2012
Video description: In what may be the first documented digital hate crime, The 404 tells the story of a professor assaulted in a Parisian McDonalds for wearing a set of cybernetic glasses. This story plus more fast food news and a 150-foot Batman on today's 404 show.

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