Updated README, fixed typo in LICENSE file.

LICENSE

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 http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
 
-Pick whichever license you choose, as long as it is OSI aproved.
+Pick whichever license you choose, as long as it is OSI approved.
 

README.md

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+# About SilkJS
+
 SilkJS is a console application that wraps the v8 JavaScript engine.  It is designed for Ubuntu Linux, but it also compiles for OSX as well as other flavors of Linux.
 
+SilkJS implements a thin layer of "glue" to access the various operating system functions and functions of other useful libraries.
+
+A great deal of focus on the SilkJS project is performance.  SilkJS was designed to facilitate the implementation of the included HTTP server, but has proven 
+to be far more useful in numerous console and server-side applications.  The HTTP server has remarkable performance characteristics, and the core logic is written
+entirely in JavaScript!
+
+Some people say SilkJS is a synchronous version of NodeJS.  It was not designed to be such, but it was designed to be a faster alternative to NodeJS for 
+Linux-based server applications.  
+
+## Features
+
+* CommonJS require 1.1 implementation
+* XMLHttpRequest implementation for accessing WWW services
+* Basic implementation of console as you typically would call in browser code.
+* Rich set of POSIX File System methods.
+* Rich set of Process methods.
+* Implementation of glue for libgd2 for graphics manipulation.
+* Implementation of HTTP "helper" methods (see below).
+* Implementation of MySQL functions.
+* Implementation of SQLite3 functions.
+* Implementation of NCURSES functions.
+* Implementation of NETWORK functions (sockets, etc.).
+* Implementation of SSH2 functions (exec remote commands, etc.).
+* Implementation of functions to manipulate the V8 engine itself.
+* and more!
+
+## License
+
+SilkJS is intended to be free for use by anyone and for any legal purpose.
+
+To that end, please see this link:
+
+http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
+
+Pick whichever license you choose, as long as it is OSI approved.
+
+
+## QUICKSTART
+
+(See https://github.com/mschwartz/SilkJS/wiki/Build-Instructions for dependent libraries)
+
+Currently for Mac OSX Lion x64 and Ubuntu only...
+
+    git clone https://github.com/mschwartz/SilkJS SilkJS
+    cd SilkJS
+    make
+
+Once built:
+
+    ./silkjs httpd/main.js
+
+Then point your browser at http://localhost:9090/
+
+## Useful Links
+
+Home Site: http://silkjs.org/
+
+Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/SilkJS
+
+Check out the Wiki here, too: https://github.com/mschwartz/SilkJS/wiki
+