Find the MAC address on your N95

"To find out what yours is, enter *#62209526#"

or

"I took the battery out and read it off the back of a tiny sticker!"

http://myn95.com/?p=18

'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws

""Amphibian horror" isn't a movie genre, but on this evidence perhaps it should be. Harvard biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog with cat-like extendable claws.

Trichobatrachus robustus actively breaks its own bones to produce claws that puncture their way out of the frog's toe pads, probably when it is threatened."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13991-horror-frog-breaks-own-bones-to-produce-claws.html

Shrimp can see beyond the rainbow

"Mantis shrimps, dubbed "thumb splitters" by divers because of their vicious claws, have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom, capable of seeing colors from the ultraviolet to the infrared, as well as detecting other subtle variations in light.

They view the world in up to 12 primary colors -- four times as many as humans -- and can measure six different kinds of light polarization, Swiss and Australian researchers reported."

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL132374120080514

Great tit finds home in ashtray

"Smokers visiting a nature reserve in Kinross have been told to make alternative arrangements after a great tit built a nest in a cigarette bin."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7423903.stm