I've been learning a little assembly with some other Hacker Schoolers. It's fun, but I spent nearly an hour yesterday trying to find a modern online guide for running x86-64 assembly on OS X, and couldn't really find anything that didn't involve complicated uses of gcc. Frankly, without the ever-wise advice of davidad, I probably wouldn't have figured it out, so here's a quick guide to what I did for future reference.