Hmm, turns out that gist.github.com renders `code` in `h3` tags with a font-weight of 400, which looks better imho:
![screen shot 2013-08-28 at 11 22 41 am](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/212465/1040878/6d95593c-0fc3-11e3-807d-2bb82f6cb029.png)