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 ## Required software:
 
-All of the servers present in this repository are based on node.js, and a
-minimal but non-zero number of 3rd party node modules are required to make
-it go.  [npm](http://npmjs.org/) is a good tool to use to acquire the requisite modules.
+All of the servers here are based on node.js, and some number of 3rd party node modules are required to make them go.  ([npm](http://npmjs.org/) is a good way to get these libraries)
 
 * node.js (>= 0.4.5): http://nodejs.org/
-* The connect framework (>= 1.3.0): http://senchalabs.github.com/connect/
+* connect (>= 1.3.0): http://senchalabs.github.com/connect/
 * xml2js (>= 0.1.5)
 * sqlite (>= 1.0.3)
 * mustache (>= 0.3.1)