My favorite Mac bigot, er, evangelist, Scott Waters goes on one of his patented rants about those USB pen drives, memory sticks or whatever you want to call them, and how Mac users can minimize possible problems. Our campus’ academic computing specialist recently advised our faculty and staff on their use as well. I don’t use one myself, opting to use my iDisk or my own OS X server, but I have witnessed the death of our camera’s flash card, along with the pics that it contained.