Chuckwalla and I were looking up animal pictures on images.google.com, and she asked me to find pictures of a bunny. So I typed "bunny" and clicked on the first picture I saw.
Click on the link.
The photographer is... Steven Pinker! Pinker--the greatest modern cognitive psychologist, one of the most influential living linguists, and the modern anti-Empiricist rock star--took a picture of a "bunny." Not a desert cottontail rabbit, not a cottontail rabbit, not even a rabbit, but a "bunny." And not only that, but it is one of the top ten hits on images.google.com for "bunny."
Bizarre!
His gallery is actually pretty good. He uses polarizing filters to good effect, and he takes some nice macros. His bird pictures are all properly identified. But still... didn't see that one coming!
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