diff --git a/LICENSE.MIT b/LICENSE.MIT
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+Copyright (c) 2012 Conrad Irwin <conrad.irwin@gmail.com>
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+*in progress*
+
+LSpace — Safe operation-local storage.
+
+Global variables are awesome. Unfortunately they become a bit useless when you have
+multiple threads because you often want different "global" state per-thread...
+
+Thread-local variables are even more awesome! Unfortunately they become a bit useless when
+you are doing multiple things on the same thread because you often want different
+"thread-local" state per operation...
+
+Operation-local variables are most awesome!
+
+`LSpace`, named after the Discworld's [L-Space](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_dimensions_of_the_Discworld#L-space)
+gives you effective, safe operation-local variables.
+
+It does this by following your operation as it jumps between thread-pools, or fires
+callbacks on your event-loop; and makes sure to clean up after itself so that no state
+accidentally leaks.
+
+If you're using this on EventMachine, you should be ready to rock by requiring 'lspace/eventmachine'.
+If you've got your own thread-pool, or are doing something fancy, you'll need to do some
+manual work.
diff --git a/lspace.gemspec b/lspace.gemspec
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+Gem::Specification.new do |s|
+  s.name = "lspace"
+  s.version = "0.1.pre.1"
+  s.platform = Gem::Platform::RUBY
+  s.author = "Conrad Irwin"
+  s.email = "conrad.irwin@gmail.com"
+  s.homepage = "http://github.com/ConradIrwin/lspace"
+  s.summary = "Provides local global storage"
+  s.description = "Provides the convenience of global variables, without the safety concerns."
+  s.files = `git ls-files`.split("\n")
+  s.require_path = "lib"
+end