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@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ About
 **django-picklefield** provides an implementation of a pickled object field.
 Such fields can contain any picklable objects.
 
-The implementation is taken and adopted from Django snippet #1694
-<http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1694/> by Taavi Taijala, which is in
-turn based on Django snippet #513 <http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/513/>
+The implementation is taken and adopted from Django snippet #1694 http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1694/ by Taavi Taijala, which is in
+turn based on Django snippet #513 http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/513/
 by Oliver Beattie.
 
 django-picklefield is available under the MIT license.
@@ -117,59 +116,59 @@ Changes
 Changes in version 0.1.8
 ========================
 
- * Updated link to code repository.
+* Updated link to code repository.
 
 Changes in version 0.1.7
 ========================
 
- * Added `connection` and `prepared` parameters to `get_db_prep_lookup()` to
-   get rid of deprecation warnings in Django 1.2.
+* Added `connection` and `prepared` parameters to `get_db_prep_lookup()` to
+  get rid of deprecation warnings in Django 1.2.
 
 Changes in version 0.1.6
 ========================
 
- * Fixed South support (thanks aehlke@github).
+* Fixed South support (thanks aehlke@github).
 
 Changes in version 0.1.5
 ========================
 
- * Added support for South.
- * Changed default to null=False, as is common throughout Django.
+* Added support for South.
+* Changed default to null=False, as is common throughout Django.
 
 Changes in version 0.1.4
 ========================
 
- * Updated copyright statements.
+* Updated copyright statements.
 
 Changes in version 0.1.3
 ========================
 
- * Updated serialization tests (thanks to Michael Fladischer).
+* Updated serialization tests (thanks to Michael Fladischer).
 
 Changes in version 0.1.2
 ========================
 
- * Added Simplified BSD licence.
+* Added Simplified BSD licence.
 
 Changes in version 0.1.1
 ========================
 
- * Added test for serialization.
- * Added note about JSON serialization for browser.
- * Added support for different pickle protocol versions (thanks to Michael
-   Fladischer).
+* Added test for serialization.
+* Added note about JSON serialization for browser.
+* Added support for different pickle protocol versions (thanks to Michael
+  Fladischer).
 
 Changes in version 0.1
 ======================
 
- * First public release.
+* First public release.
 
 
 --------
 Feedback
 --------
 
-There is a home page <http://github.com/gintas/django-picklefield>
+There is a home page http://github.com/gintas/django-picklefield
 with instructions on how to access the code repository.
 
 Send feedback and suggestions to gintautas@miliauskas.lt .