Watch The Daily Show Take on Google Glasses, Instagram [VIDEO]

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Watch The Daily Show Take on Google Glasses, Instagram [VIDEO]

As curators of news material, we are careful not to throw our hands up in the air and yell, "what the hell?" every time a company like Facebook spends $1 billion to acquire a revenue-free company like Instagram. After all, when Yahoo bought Geocities in 1999, it paid $3.57 billion — an astounding $830 per user — so we're used to Texas-sized deals. Still, if there's one person unable to let the absolute absurdity of Internet business slide, it's The Daily Show's Jon Stewart.

Last night's episode of The Daily Show was heavy on tech. Stewart offered an expertly done send up of Google's new augmented reality effort Project Glass, letting us see the world from the eyes of an Internet-wired dog. Shortly after, the show took on Facebook's acquiring of Instagram.

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