“They tried to make me go to rehab, I said: Lego! Lego! Lego!” To celebrate its 30th birthday, Lego immortalized a number of upstanding celebs. Amy Winehouse sold separately.

Change we don’t believe in. A New York Times/CBS news poll reveals that McCain ain’t fooling anyone with his (unoriginal) call for change in Washington. Oh, and that curious “Palin effect” has kinda, sorta lost effect.

Hackers (finally!) make themselves useful. Someone fiddled here, tinkered there, and voila! Hacked into Palin’s Yahoo! personal e-mail account. The juicy? Someone’s been mixing business with pleasure to keep government-related correspondence off the public record. But apparently, we knew this already…?

Speaking of Palin’s personal life . . . If Sarah Palin had you as a child, what would she name you? Check out the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator for more deets. (Feel free to call me “Rope Hoover Palin” from now on, k?)

Lilo offered to back Obama, and Obama was like, yeah, well . . . NO.

Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go . . . not now. For the past six months, we’ve been guzzling up gas at a $XXX dollars per barrel rate. This week, the gas gods smiled upon us and the price of fuel dropped down to the double-digits. Woohoo! And then the stock market screwed itself, and Ike screwed the Gulf Coast, and now we’re all back to being screwed at the pump.

From the not-obvious files: Which is the first country to have women outnumber men in parliament?