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All of these links come from KnittingHelp.com; I do recomend them to anyone with the burning desire to lift needles and start knitting today. More advice? Start with some cheap yarn you don't give a hoot about to get decent at it. If you want to get a lot of practice in, stitchmysquare has a monthly trade in which you can participate on a month to month basis. Each month you're given a choice to trade or not, and how many squares you'd like to trade. akoya is the moderator of stitchmysquare , and the first person to point me in the direction of Knitting Help. Below I've included some direct links on Knitting Help's site that should get you through the basics. Go to the top of any main page (not a page that plays a video) and there are tabs that mention other things it can help you with. Can't find the Winning Lotto Ticket tab, but I haven't given up yet!

Continental cast on video. I swear, this is the easiest method I've tried, and the smoothest cast on.
Knit stitch video, English method.
Purl stitch video, English method. Looked at the German method and recommend the English for simplicity of how to do it.
Basic knit bind off. There are other ways here.

Post inspired by ilea's post on knitting in craftgrrl.