[Freaky]

And how could I forget: David Langford, "BLIT"[1], and "Different Kinds of Darkness"[2].

> BLIT (which stands for Berryman Logical Image Technique) is a short science-fiction story written by author David Langford. It features a setting where highly dangerous types of images called "basilisks" have been discovered; these images contain patterns within them that exploit flaws in the structure of the human mind to produce a lethal reaction, effectively "crashing" the mind the way a computer program crashes when given data that it fails to process.

1: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

2: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/different-kinds-of...

[mjcohen]

Like in "Snow Crash".

[DanBC]

Yes. Except Blit was published in 1988 and Snowcrash in 1992.