From: Darin Sunley (darin25@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 1998 - 22:08:23 MST
>
>Michael Lorrey <retroman@together.net> writes:
>
>> 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_?
>
[snip]
Or the "Killer Joke" in Monty Python's Flying Circus?
-"He had written the world's funniest joke. No one could hear it and
live."
-"Police Chief: I will be entering the house to retreive the joke,
aided by somber music, and the singing of lamentations by the men of
D squad."
Sorry. Couldn't resist. :)
Darin Sunley
Darin25@hotmail.com
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