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Byline: Compiled from news services and online research by The Post-Standard's Brian Cubbison, Gary Gerew, and Keith Thompson

Hipster Dictionary update

The rickrolling fad is basically harmless: Send a friend a link that turns out to be to [currency]80s pop star Rick Astley singing Never Gonna Give Up ...

In some versions the video takes over your computer until you practically have to take out the battery to turn it off, but thats about as bad as it ever gets ...

Now the New York Mets are having a contest in which people can vote for a song the fans will sing in the eighth inning of games in the last season at Shea Stadium ...

Among the listed choices are Brown-Eyed Girl, the theme from Friends and Other ...

Members of vote-on-odd-Web-stuff sites such as Digg , Fark and Reddit jumped on the opportunity to rickroll the Mets ...

Theyve launched the biggest wave of baseball ballot stuffing since Cincinnati Reds fans elected seven players to the All-Star game in 1957 ...

The lyrics are actually kind of appropriate for loyal fans and the team that torments them, if youll pardon this brief interruption:

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

Political ticker

The New York Post tracked down the girl who read a poem to Hillary Rodham Clinton in that now-disputed visit to Bosnia. Emina Bicakcic is 20 now and studying to become a doctor, and she was surprised to learn of the now-retracted reports of dodging sniper fire ...

McClatchy News Service went to the hometown of video vixen and Obama Girl Amber Lee Ettinger and found that Hazleton, Pa., near Scranton, is solidly for Hillary Clinton ...

The Rest of the World News

In Raymond, Maine, according to The Portland Press Herald, third- and fourth-graders wearing purple wristbands are determined to go 21 straight days without complaining ...

In Toronto, Ontario, according to the CBC, a judge threw out a traffic ticket for a Buick Regal that had been hollowed out and made into a pedal car by artist Michel de Broin ...

In Flesherton, Ontario, according to The Toronto Star, a student at Grey Highlands Secondary School used instructions from a Web site to build a Taser-like device from a bug zapper and sold it for $20 to another student ...

In New Mexico, according to The Associated Press, the FCC is expected to turn off the Internet to the Navajo nation today in a dispute with the satellite service provider over double billing ...