until we figure out the problem some osx users are having, try installing windows in a virtual machine on your osx host. You can get VirtualBox for osx here: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.18/VirtualBox-4.1.18-78361-OSX.dmg here are instructions: http://damien.co/resources/how-to-install-virtualbox-mac-osx-host-winxp-guest-using-tinyxp-rev-09-132 When you have windows xp running, download the tor browser bundle for windows, install, and visit silk road. This is untested, so if anyone does this, let us know if it works.