updating .gitignore and README

Author: eschulte

.gitignore

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+*
+!*.html
+!.gitignore

README

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+This is a Literate Programming fork of the original Emacs Starter Kit
+
+This should provide a saner set of defaults than you get normally with
+Emacs. It's intended for beginners, but provides a good elisp
+initialization structure for all levels of users.
+
+The main advantage of this Emacs Starter Kit are
+- better default settings
+- easy loading of many useful libraries and configurations
+- "literate" customization embedded in Org-mode files
+- an organizational directory structure
+- git provides for version control, backup, and sharing
+- easy instillation with no need to compile external packages
+
+The latest version is at http://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/
+
+For more information including use and instillation instructions see
+http://eschulte.github.com/emacs24-starter-kit/