Out of memory, clear screen, cannot boot, no icons

I have lost all icons. Cannot boot without a hard boot. Clear screen.
All day long it said out of memory. I have 10gb. I cannot even access utilities or any programs.
Really lost.

http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2804827?threadID=2804827
Boot from another drive then. Don't have one, then boot from OS X DVD : Restore : and copy (clone) 'source' your drive to a new 'target' drive
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html

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