diff --git a/plugins/drama.py b/plugins/drama.py
index 446ee77..ff7711b 100755
--- a/plugins/drama.py
+++ b/plugins/drama.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ed_url = "http://encyclopediadramatica.com/"
 ua_header = ('User-Agent','Skybot/1.0 http://bitbucket.org/Scaevolus/skybot/')
 
 
-@hook.command('ed')   
+@hook.command('ed')
 @hook.command
 def drama(inp):
     '''.drama <phrase> -- gets first paragraph of Encyclopedia Dramatica ''' \
diff --git a/plugins/mem.py b/plugins/mem.py
index f80cefa..7f0de87 100644
--- a/plugins/mem.py
+++ b/plugins/mem.py
@@ -26,5 +26,3 @@ def mem(inp):
         return 'memory usage: %d kB' % total
 
     return mem.__doc__
-
-print mem('')
diff --git a/plugins/misc.py b/plugins/misc.py
index f628ad5..873edca 100644
--- a/plugins/misc.py
+++ b/plugins/misc.py
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ def onjoin(paraml, conn=None):
     
     for channel in conn.channels:
         conn.join(channel)
-        time.sleep(1) # don't flood JOINs
+        time.sleep(1)  # don't flood JOINs
diff --git a/plugins/regular.py b/plugins/regular.py
index d6d5565..511c350 100644
--- a/plugins/regular.py
+++ b/plugins/regular.py
@@ -1,23 +1,23 @@
-'''
-regular.py
-
-skybot plugin for testing regular expressions
-by Ipsum
-'''
-
-import re
-
-from util import hook
-
-
-@hook.command('re')
+'''
+regular.py
+
+skybot plugin for testing regular expressions
+by Ipsum
+'''
+
+import re
+
+from util import hook
+
+
+@hook.command('re')
 def reg(inp):
     ".re <regex>  <string> -- matches regular expression in given <string> "\
             "(leave 2 spaces between)"
-
-    query = inp.split("  ", 1)
-
+
+    query = inp.split("  ", 1)
+
     if not inp or len(query) != 2:
         return reg.__doc__
 
-    return '|'.join(re.findall(query[0], query[1]))
+    return '|'.join(re.findall(query[0], query[1]))
diff --git a/plugins/util/urlnorm.py b/plugins/util/urlnorm.py
index 7b919ba..a51a76e 100644
--- a/plugins/util/urlnorm.py
+++ b/plugins/util/urlnorm.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ def normalize(url):
     fragment=quote(clean(fragment), "~")
 
     # note care must be taken to only encode & and = characters as values
-    query="&".join(["=".join([quote(clean(t) , "~:/?#[]@!$'()*+,;=")
+    query="&".join(["=".join([quote(clean(t), "~:/?#[]@!$'()*+,;=")
         for t in q.split("=", 1)]) for q in query.split("&")])
 
     # Prevent dot-segments appearing in non-relative URI paths.
diff --git a/plugins/validate.py b/plugins/validate.py
index f2572a7..f61d1ca 100644
--- a/plugins/validate.py
+++ b/plugins/validate.py
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
-'''
-Runs a given url through the w3c validator and queries
-	the result header for information
-
-by Vladi
-'''
-
-import urllib
-
-from util import hook
-
-path = 'http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s'
-
-@hook.command('val')
-@hook.command
-def validate(inp):
-	'''.val/.validate <url> -- runs url through the w3c markup validator'''
-	
-	if not inp:
-		return validate.__doc__
-		
-	if not inp.startswith('http://'):
-		inp = 'http://' + inp
-		
-	url = path % (urllib.quote(inp))
-	temp = urllib.urlopen(url).info()
-
-	status = temp.getheader('X-W3C-Validator-Status')
-	if (status == "Valid" or status == "Invalid"):
-		errorcount = temp.getheader('X-W3C-Validator-Errors')
-		warningcount = temp.getheader('X-W3C-Validator-Warnings')
-		return "%s was validated as %s with %s errors and %s warnings. See: %s" \
-			% (inp, status.lower(), errorcount, warningcount, url)
-	else:
-		return "Something went wrong while validating %s" % (inp)
\ No newline at end of file
+'''
+Runs a given url through the w3c validator
+
+by Vladi
+'''
+
+import urllib
+import urllib2
+
+from util import hook
+
+
+@hook.command('val')
+@hook.command
+def validate(inp):
+    '''.val/.validate <url> -- runs url through the w3c markup validator'''
+
+    if not inp:
+        return validate.__doc__
+
+    if not inp.startswith('http://'):
+        inp = 'http://' + inp
+
+        url = 'http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s' % urllib.quote(inp, '')
+        info = dict(urllib2.urlopen(url).info())
+
+        print info
+        status = info['x-w3c-validator-status'].lower()
+        if status in ("valid", "invalid"):
+            errorcount = info['x-w3c-validator-errors']
+            warningcount = info['x-w3c-validator-warnings']
+            return "%s was found to be %s with %s errors and %s warnings." \
+                    " see: %s" % (inp, status, errorcount, warningcount, url)
+    else:
+        return "Something went wrong while validating %s" % inp