diff --git a/app/models/retraction.rb b/app/models/retraction.rb
index 6fad270c2..cf52720ed 100644
--- a/app/models/retraction.rb
+++ b/app/models/retraction.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ class Retraction
   attr_accessor :person_id
   attr_accessor :type
 
-
   def self.for(object)
     retraction = self.new
     if object.is_a? User
diff --git a/app/models/user.rb b/app/models/user.rb
index 453e9118d..c767e3b91 100644
--- a/app/models/user.rb
+++ b/app/models/user.rb
@@ -126,8 +126,6 @@ class User
     push_to_people(post, target_people)
   end
 
-
-
   def push_to_people(post, people)
     people.each{|person|
       salmon(post, :to => person)
@@ -147,8 +145,6 @@ class User
     salmon
   end
 
-
-
   ######## Commenting  ########
   def comment(text, options = {})
     comment = build_comment(text, options)
diff --git a/lib/net/curl.rb b/lib/net/curl.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 4220a27f7..000000000
--- a/lib/net/curl.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-class Curl
-  def self.post(s)
-    `curl -X POST -d #{s}`;;
-  end
-  
-  def self.get(s)
-    `curl -X GET #{s}`
-  end
-end
-