Welcome to Markout, snizzlechamps.
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Boomstick uses a modified version of 
[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/), called 
[Markout](http://markout.exegetic.net). Markdown is a 
_lightweight markup language,_ which basically means that it isn't a total pain
in the ass to write text documents with simple formatting. For example, you can
write this:

>	I sure do _looove_ **ungulates.**

simply by writing this:

	I sure do _looove_ **ungulates.**

Markdown is particularly cool because it's designed around the idea that a 
Markdown-formatted document should be simple, easy to read, and basically 
shouldn't look like ass. That's keen because, for example, you can write a 
document in Markdown, email it to all your favorite celebrity stalkers, and 
then publish it on the web without modification. Keen! There's more on that 
over [here](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/basics).

About Markdown, that is. There's more about celebrity stalkers over 
[here](http://www.leisuresuit.net/Webzine/articles/celebrity_stalker.shtml).

Markout goes a little further beyond, adding free links and giving the whole 
thing some simple wiki functionality. So if you type something like this:

	[[index]]

You'll get a link like this: [[index]].

While we're at it, here are are a couple of links:

- [The Markout version of this page](markout.text)
- A more casual link to the Markout version of this page: 
  <http://boomstick.exegetic.net/markout.text>
- A free link to the same: [[markout.text]]
- And a free link to the [[category:about]] tag.

Also, here's an image:

![yarrr](/images/sub/Bruce_Campbell_Army_of_Darkness.jpg)