diff --git a/jquery.oembed.css b/jquery.oembed.css
index f76b23e..3440540 100644
--- a/jquery.oembed.css
+++ b/jquery.oembed.css
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ div.oembedall-githubrepos  {
     margin: 0 0 10px;
     padding: 8px 10px 0;
     font: 13.34px/1.4 helvetica,arial,freesans,clean,sans-serif;
-    background: url("http://github.com/images/icons/public.png") no-repeat scroll 6px 9px transparent;
+    /*background: url("http://github.com/images/icons/public.png") no-repeat scroll 6px 9px transparent;*/
     width : 452px;
     background-color:#fff;
 }
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ div.oembedall-githubrepos p.oembedall-updated-at {
 }
 
 div.oembedall-githubrepos ul.oembedall-repo-stats {
-    background: url("http://github.com/images/modules/pagehead/actions_fade.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
+    /*background: url("http://github.com/images/modules/pagehead/actions_fade.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;*/
     border: medium none;
     float: right;
     font-size: 11px;
@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ ul.oembedall-repo-stats li:last-child a:hover {
     border-top-right-radius: 3px;
 }
 div.oembedall-githubrepos ul.oembedall-repo-stats li.oembedall-watchers a {
-    background-image: url("http://github.com/images/modules/pagehead/repostat_watchers.png");
+    /*background-image: url("http://github.com/images/modules/pagehead/repostat_watchers.png");*/
 }
 
 div.oembedall-githubrepos ul.oembedall-repo-stats li.oembedall-forks a {
-    background-image: url("http://github.com/images/modules/pagehead/repostat_forks.png");
+    /*background-image: url("http://github.com/images/modules/pagehead/repostat_forks.png");*/
 }
 
 
diff --git a/jquery.oembed.js b/jquery.oembed.js
index cfc3ea4..d76c934 100644
--- a/jquery.oembed.js
+++ b/jquery.oembed.js
@@ -532,8 +532,8 @@
     new $.fn.oembed.OEmbedProvider("github", "rich", ["github.com/[-.\\w@]+/[-.\\w@]+"], "https://api.github.com/repos/$1/$2?callback=?"
     ,{templateRegex:/.*\/([^\/]+)\/([^\/]+).*/,
       templateData : function(data){ if(!data.data.html_url)return false;
-          return  '<div class="oembedall-githubrepos"><ul class="oembedall-repo-stats"><li>'+data.data.language+'</li><li class="oembedall-watchers"><a title="Watchers" href="'+data.data.html_url+'/watchers">'+data.data.watchers+'</a></li>'
-            +'<li class="oembedall-forks"><a title="Forks" href="'+data.data.html_url+'/network">'+data.data.forks+'</a></li></ul><h3><a href="'+data.data.html_url+'">'+data.data.name+'</a></h3><div class="oembedall-body"><p class="oembedall-description">'+data.data.description+'</p>'
+          return  '<div class="oembedall-githubrepos"><ul class="oembedall-repo-stats"><li>'+data.data.language+'</li><li class="oembedall-watchers"><a title="Watchers" href="'+data.data.html_url+'/watchers">&#x25c9; '+data.data.watchers+'</a></li>'
+            +'<li class="oembedall-forks"><a title="Forks" href="'+data.data.html_url+'/network">&#x0265; '+data.data.forks+'</a></li></ul><h3><a href="'+data.data.html_url+'">'+data.data.name+'</a></h3><div class="oembedall-body"><p class="oembedall-description">'+data.data.description+'</p>'
             +'<p class="oembedall-updated-at">Last updated: '+data.data.pushed_at+'</p></div></div>';
         }
       }),