> Charlie Stross wrote:
>
> > BTW, if you can get locate it, read the SF short story BLIT (by Dave
> > Langford, first published in Interzone a few years ago and reprinted a
> > couple of times since then). Someone discovers a fractal image that
> > makes the human brain's wetware crash ...
>
> You mean like that cartoon in Japan that sent thousands into
> epilleptic seizures???
Or Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_?
It is unlikely the wetware can be permanently crashed by a simple
stimuli, although the flicker-induced epilepsy is a real
possibility. Our brains are rather robust systems, they have to be in
order to survive in a real world with all sorts of stimuli and plenty
of noise.
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