readme cleanup
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2c660bc..6237377 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,36 +1,26 @@
-markdown
-========
-
-This is a portable markdown library written in dart. It can parse markdown into
+A portable markdown library written in Dart. It can parse markdown into
 html on both the client and server.
 
 Usage
 -----
 
-[You can find the installation directions here.][installing]
-
 ```dart
-import 'package:markdown/markdown.dart' show markdownToHtml;
+import 'package:markdown/markdown.dart';
 
-main() {
+void main() {
   print(markdownToHtml('Hello *Markdown*'));
   //=> <p>Hello <em>Markdown</em></p>
 }
 ```
 
-You can create and use your own syntaxes!
+You can create and use your own syntaxes.
 
 ```dart
 import 'package:markdown/markdown.dart';
 
-main() {
-  List<InlineSyntax> syntaxes = [new TextSyntax('nyan', sub: '~=[,,_,,]:3')];
+void main() {
+  var syntaxes = [new TextSyntax('nyan', sub: '~=[,,_,,]:3')];
   print(markdownToHtml('nyan', inlineSyntaxes: syntaxes));
   //=> <p>~=[,,_,,]:3</p>
 }
 ```
-[You can find the documentation for this library here.][documentation]
-
-[installing]: http://pub.dartlang.org/packages/markdown#installing
-[documentation]: http://www.dartdocs.org/documentation/markdown/0.7.0/index.html
-