Check out the promotional video for the UriLift, the answer to the problem of rampant public urination by hard-drinking men. (h/t to Herr Speicher)

A New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh says the CIA has found no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. The White House is dismissive of the report. Sound familiar?

Here's the full New Yorker article.

Here's the BBC news story based on it.

From the Fortune blurb: Everything you buy online says a little bit about you. And if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about you and your tastes? Marketer's heaven. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. (h/t to Herr Speicher)

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News Corp. announced Monday that it was cancelling a Fox television special on O.J. Simpson called If I Did It, a "hypothetical" look at what Simpson would have done if he actually had murdered his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.

I eagerly await the answer to the following question: Will we look back on this in five years and say this event marks when the overflowing swamp of tabloid infotainment masquerading as news started receding?

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From globeandmail.com:

A blogger whose postings have been critical of the government was arrested less than a week after rights watchdog Amnesty International criticized Egypt for detaining the writer of another personal Web log.

Rami Siyam was at least the fifth blogger Egypt has detained this year. He has been running his blog since May, 2005, and his postings have included criticism of alleged police torture.

A police officer said he was detained for questioning and transferred to the Delta Nile city of Belbeis for further interrogation.

“Police want to know if he is involved in criminal activities,” the officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. He did not say whether Mr. Siyam's detention Sunday had any connection to items critical of the government which he posted on his blog.

From globeandmail.com:

The Internet ranks behind only television as the leading source for science news and information, but most users won't trust what they read online blindly, a new study finds.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project said in a report Monday that 20 per cent of Americans obtain most of their science information from the Internet, compared with 41 per cent who cited television. Newspapers and magazines were each credited by 14 per cent, and radio by 4 per cent.

The gap disappears among users of high-speed Internet connections at home, with 34 per cent saying they turn to the Internet most of the time, and 33 per cent citing television.

About 80 per cent of those who get science information online try to check its accuracy elsewhere — another online source, offline resources or the original study — and many of them use more than one alternative.

Here's the Pew report link.