• This clip is so fresh that it hasn’t made its way to YouTube at all. Until now (we just uploaded it). Our friend Larry Crider sends along this clip of Alvin Greene randomly showing up on a live newscast giving a reporter rabbit ears. He’s wearing a Greene for Senate shirt, by the way. In other news, Jim DeMint started the recession. (Update: We initially posted a longer version of the clip with much more context. Here’s the 30-second version, begging for views.) source

• $75
  million the amount CVS has to pay in fines for selling pseudoephedrine to criminals producing crystal meth
• $2.5
  million the amount the massive pharmacy chain has to give up in profits linked to the drug’s sale source

• » Where you’ve used pseudoephedrine: Sudafed, Claritin, Zyrtec, Contac and Mucinex, among others. Some of these brands, by the way, no longer use the drug. What CVS did here wasn’t intentional so much as a blind eye. They didn’t question people making repeated purchases of these drugs.

• $2.17 the size of Google’s profits this quarter

• 25% boost in Google’s overall revenues last quarter – not bad, considering all that extracurricular spending
• 9% jump in stock price on the news; put that in your self-driving car’s tailpipe and smoke it source

• $20 million cost, but goddamn, that was some good TV

• » So, who pays the bill? Well, you would assume the mining company that owned the mine, San Esteban Primera, but they’re nearly broke. So state-owned company Codelco has owned the effort, paying $15 million of the total cost, with private firms paying the rest. Expect lawsuits and criminal charges.

And here are the big winners:

• 3.4 million number of viewers CNN got in the first hour of the rescue
• 7 million number of viewers Fox News got in the final hour of the mining escapade

• 4M pageviews per minute on news sites at the peak of the mining incident
• $7,000 worth of sunglasses given away to the miners by Oakley
• $41Mthe amount of free advertising Oakley got in the process source

• tit National Republicans are urging Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) not to run for President in 2012, as they doubt his electability.
• tat In exchange, Barbour would score a sweet job – like Ambassador to London – if the eventual Republican nominee wins. source

• Dear Jon Stewart: Thank you for proving our point that this whole story has basically been kibble for cable news channels.

• 930,437 number of properties hit with a foreclosure filing in the third quarter of this year alone
• 102,134 number of foreclosed homes in September, which, by the way, is an all-time record source

• Directed by the director of Twilight, Maybe? God, even worse! ABC has committed itself to creating not a contemporary version of the classic Shakespeare tragedy, but one set in the time of Shakespeare. And they want Catherine Hardwicke, the director of “Twilight” to shoot it. Good God. Why would anyone do this to the world? Plus, have they even considered how hard it’s going to be to work around the major plot point of the play, you know, that the lead characters offed themselves at the very end? source

• I bet even the folks at Google are mystified by this kind of accounting.
• Yahoo! Senior VP of Search & Marketplaces Shashi Seth • Trying to explain why Google gained on them by nearly a point in the overall search rankings. Hint: He thinks it has everything to do with Google Instant skewing the results. To which we say, whatever. This sounds like an excuse by a VP in a sector that needs explanations for their mediocre performance. Note that nobody dipped anywhere near as badly as Yahoo did last month. source

• 2% of all flat-panel TVs sold in 2010 will have 3D capabilities as part of the overall package
• 41% the percentage industry group DisplaySearch says will be out there by 2014; good luck
• one the number of pairs of 3D glasses sold with each set; just kidding, it’s less than that source