Daily Links

• A juvenile fan of the video game Halo 3 is accused of punching his mother after she forced him to end his game Sunday night and fighting with sheriff’s deputies as they tried to restrain him, according to reports released Wednesday. Source (Anxus)
• The south Jersey town of Vineland – or “shithole Vtown” as some locals call it – will host a massive three-day rock festival with camping this August. The Vineland Festival will be presented in a partnership between the company that resurrected Lollapalooza in Chicago and U.K. concert promoter Melvin Benn, who has managed the Reading Festival. Source (Gothamist)
• A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to divulge documents related to immunizing telecommunications companies from lawsuits, saying they illegally opened their networks to the National Security Agency. Source (cNet)
• Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said failure to negotiate a two-state solution with the Palestinians would spell the end of the State of Israel. He warned of a "South African-style struggle" which Israel would lose if a Palestinian state was not established. Source (BBC)
• A powerful Senate chairman acknowledged explicitly on Thursday that President Bush was not involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys last winter and therefore ruled illegal the president's executive privilege claims protecting his chief of staff and former adviser Karl Rove. Source (MSNBC)
• Since declaring his candidacy for president in February, Obama, a member of a congregation of the United Church of Christ in Chicago, has had to address assertions that he is a Muslim or that he had received training in Islam in Indonesia, where he lived from ages 6 to 10. While his father was an atheist and his mother did not practice religion, Obama's stepfather did occasionally attend services at a mosque there. Source (Washington Post)
• The Wagner Companies makes aluminum hand rails for staircases, but about a year ago they decided to start creating Festivus poles during the slow winter months. Source (Hojpodge)
• Xbox 360 adds new titles to its backwards-compatibility list, bringing the total to over 300 Xbox Original games you can play on the 360. Source (Major Nelson)

Finally, here's a classic video of Bert the Turtle teaching us the importance of Duck and Cover from the 50's. Because that would obviously be the best defense against a nuke being dropped in a town near you.