diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 715735e..6ea3aa9 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,17 +2,24 @@
 # Copyright 2008, Sean B. Palmer, inamidst.com
 # Licensed under the Eiffel Forum License 2.
 
+# archive - Create phenny.tar.bz2 using git archive
 archive: ;
 	# hg archive -t tbz2 phenny-hg.tar.bz2
 	git archive --format=tar --prefix=phenny/ HEAD | bzip2 > phenny.tar.bz2
 
+# ci - Check the code into git and push to github
 ci: ;
 	# hg ci
 	git commit -a && git push origin master
 
+# log - Show a log of recent updates
 log: ;
 	# git log --date=short --format='%h %ad %s'
 	git graph
 
+# sync - Push phenny to pubble:opt/phenny/
 sync: ;
 	rsync -avz ./ pubble:opt/phenny/
+
+help: ;
+	@egrep '^# [a-z]+ - ' Makefile | sed 's/# //'
diff --git a/modules/head.py b/modules/head.py
index b6767ff..384b8df 100755
--- a/modules/head.py
+++ b/modules/head.py
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ def noteuri(phenny, input):
    if not hasattr(phenny.bot, 'last_seen_uri'): 
       phenny.bot.last_seen_uri = {}
    phenny.bot.last_seen_uri[input.sender] = uri
-noteuri.rule = r'.*(http://[^<> "\x01]+)[,.]?'
+noteuri.rule = r'.*(http[s]?://[^<> "\x01]+)[,.]?'
 noteuri.priority = 'low'
 
 if __name__ == '__main__': 
diff --git a/modules/oblique.py b/modules/oblique.py
index e53ec29..3622b4a 100755
--- a/modules/oblique.py
+++ b/modules/oblique.py
@@ -34,10 +34,15 @@ def service(phenny, input, command, args):
    template = template.replace('${nick}', urllib.quote(input.nick))
    uri = template.replace('${sender}', urllib.quote(input.sender))
 
+   info = web.head(uri)
+   if isinstance(info, list): 
+      info = info[0]
+   if not 'text/plain' in info.get('content-type', '').lower(): 
+      return phenny.reply("Sorry, the service didn't respond in plain text.")
    bytes = web.get(uri)
    lines = bytes.splitlines()
    if not lines: 
-      return phenny.reply('Sorry, the service is broken.')
+      return phenny.reply("Sorry, the service didn't respond any output.")
    phenny.say(lines[0][:350])
 
 def refresh(phenny): 
diff --git a/modules/tell.py b/modules/tell.py
index 2f39986..741c58d 100755
--- a/modules/tell.py
+++ b/modules/tell.py
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ def loadReminders(fn):
    for line in f: 
       line = line.strip()
       if line: 
-         tellee, teller, verb, timenow, msg = line.split('\t', 4)
+         try: tellee, teller, verb, timenow, msg = line.split('\t', 4)
+         except ValueError: continue # @@ hmm
          result.setdefault(tellee, []).append((teller, verb, timenow, msg))
    f.close()
    return result
diff --git a/modules/translate.py b/modules/translate.py
index e637d01..d5ae41f 100755
--- a/modules/translate.py
+++ b/modules/translate.py
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ def tr(phenny, context):
 
    if input != output: 
       msg = translate(phrase, input, output)
+      if isinstance(msg, str): 
+         msg = msg.decode('utf-8')
       if msg: 
          msg = web.decode(msg) # msg.replace('&#39;', "'")
          msg = '"%s" (%s to %s, translate.google.com)' % (msg, input, output)