A shame. I'm a big fan of this show, as are many others in support (to anyone in Zen support reading this - I admit I was the one responsible for putting the Dharma 'Swan' logo on the 'door release' button notice

).
I personally find the writing particularly clever. Trying to work out what's actually going on on the island seems to play a large part in it's appeal, and is a rigorous excercise in problem solving... may explain it's appeal to techies
There's an interesting article on this topic on the BBC website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6069372.stm