Neal Stephenson on 300

There is a nice little article on the film 300 in today's New York Times, by one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson. I always enjoy Stephenson's takes on the geekier aspects of Pop Culture... He's got enormous geek cred (the man wrote the classic hacker fantasy Cryptonomicon, as well as the non-fiction classic In the Beginning was the Command Line) and he also has an interesting take on