Fox Business's flubs we could blame on the cable channel's teething pangs. But how to explain CNBC, which seemed like a high-school video project gone awry this morning? David Faber, reporting on Citigroup's current woes, said "Look at that: All the financials are up — except Citi!" The problem? Citi was actually up 84 cents, as a graphic showed five seconds later. But wait, there's more! In another graphic, shown above, CNBC had three separate misspellings. Video of the incident is after the jump.

Holy shit, last night's episode of the 'Hills' involved actual reality! You could tell that the final act of Audrina and Justin Bobby's relationship was playing out in real time, and not in a reenactment, because of how crappy the footage was and because of the subtitles. This almost made last night's episode interesting, but not quite because Audrina is way more boring than anyone else on 'The Hills,' and also what is up with her eyebrows. Maybe they're what drove Justin Bobby into the arms of that redhead at the bar, even though Audrina is "in [his] heart and [he'll] love her so much more than [she'll] ever know."

Before you pass an unfavorable judgment on Marie Osmond's bizarre performance on Monday night's Dancing with the Stars finale, please remember that she's going through an extremely difficult stretch in her life right now, catty accusations of being an attention-craving drama queen nothwithstanding. After surviving a terrifying fainting spell on live TV, a son being sent off to rehab, and the loss of the Osmond family patriarch, we really can't blame her for succumbing to to the enormous pressure of making the finals by engaging in an act of self-sabotage in donning that ill-considered baby doll costume and flailing limply through "Start Me Up."

We don't know how Tyra Banks managed to unmask seemingly wholesome, secretly Fez-fucking actress Mandy Moore as the crass-mouthed vulgarian she really is. That said, enjoy this The Tyra Banks Show clip of the License to Wed star spewing a stream of profanities that would peel the paint off a truckstop bathroom—a fountain of filth that surely kept their beep-adding and mouth-digitizing post-production team working overtime.

It's minute 14:59 for John Fitzgerald Page, and it's fiiiinally starting to seem like the Atlanta internet-dater is in on the joke, the joke being himself. In a new video for MySpace.tv, he still sounds pretty bitter towards "a crazy individual who does not consider private emails ... private," but he does seem like he must be mocking his own 'too stupid to know how to be pretentious right' shtick with his tips for Internet dating, which include "label photos accurately." Because "six photos of your head means only one thing. You might as well label the photos, 'I am fat and unattractive.'" Ha ha ha!

Hoping to nip in the bud any potential controversy raised by the recent public refusals of Democratic presidential nominee hopeful (and WGA rally superstar!) John Edwards and Barack Obama's wife to take their campaigns to The View's kingmaking couch as a show of solidarity with striking scribes, Whoopi Goldberg today explained the show's Official Position on Writers:

· With talks between the WGA and AMPTP resuming this morning, a Variety strike poll reveals that respondents believe that the Writers Guild is doing a much better job of "representing its side of the battle more forcefully and more clearly" than the studios. Indeed, the Companies might have to resort to having lead negotiator Nicholas "J. Nicky 3" Counter star in his own "Studio Boi" video if they hope to keep pace with their adversaries' latest, cutting-edge attempt at virally spreading their message. [Variety]

But drooling is as far as you're going to get, fanboys. Sloan lives with self-described "creative entrepreneur" Doug Jaeger in New York. Though there may be hope, at least to judge by the story Sloan told the Observer about Jaeger. Apparently, when Steve Jobs announced the device last winter, the couple decided to hold off purchasing iPhones until their second generation. But come June, Jaeger decided he couldn't hold back. He purchased an iPhone.

Have you missed John Hodgman, The Daily Show's "expert," since the writers' strike started? Well, he's back in action, reprising his role as "PC," joining Robert Scoble's bid to urge Vista users to not give up on Microsoft. The campaign appears to make use of an especially vicious form of keyword targeting: Here, it appears on CNET's Windows Vista page.

· Not to be outdone by SNL colleague Fred "Roger Trevanti" Armisen's strike video, Will Forte and Kristen Wiig demonstrate the many exciting, non-writing uses for the pencils WGA members put down 17 days ago.
· Those strike-related ads in the trades just keep getting nastier and more confrontational, don't they?
· We would've accepted "because that's what eventually happens when you give a trampy 17-year-old millions of dollars" as a reason for why Britney Spears' life has become such a mess, but Dr. Drew has a more detailed theory.
· Ernest Borgnine: still alive. Who knew? It's an early Christmas miracle!
· Because there's no such animal as the "holiday weekend" in the Gawker Media zoo, we'll be here on Friday morning for a half-day of posting before indulging our suicidal impulse to join the Black Friday mob at the Beverly Center, where we will likely die in the mindless pursuit of post-Thanksgiving bargains. Happy Turkey Day, friends!

MySpace's #1 publicity whore's ongoing search for bisexual love continues on A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila. (Word to the wise, Tila: You better pick at least something with genitals, lest you want to face unflattering comparisons to Brad "Brutishly Refuses to Fall in Love with One of the 25 Women He Met on a Dating Reality Show" Womack!) In this clip, Tila has her remaining suitors and suitettes coat themselves in a sinfully rich layer of chocolate, then squat over a bucket, into which they teasingly wring the soupy brown substance.

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Egoblogger Robert Scoble takes the video show on the road again. Fortunately, he isn't risking other lives while driving. This time, he's merely walking around his neighborhood, showing off his new gadget — Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader — while he films and talks to himself. Why? I have no clue. Maybe Robert simply enjoys walking into things blindly. Maybe he knows his audience is most likely to view his videos if there is a chance he may walk into oncoming traffic.