diff --git a/_layouts/base.html b/_layouts/base.html
index 8160ad7..1ab7d7d 100644
--- a/_layouts/base.html
+++ b/_layouts/base.html
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         <div id="container">
             {{ content }}
             <div id="footer">
-                <p>Copyright &copy; 2011&ndash;{{ site.time | date: "%Y" }} Ben Kurtovic &bull; <a href="//github.com/earwig/earwig.github.io">View Source</a> &bull; <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid HTML5</a></p>
+                <p>Copyright &copy; 2011&ndash;{{ site.time | date: "%Y" }} Ben&nbsp;Kurtovic &bull; <a href="//github.com/earwig/earwig.github.io">View&nbsp;Source</a> &bull; <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Valid&nbsp;HTML5</a></p>
             </div>
         </div>
     </body>
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 9dc7521..bd65e23 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ projects:
 <p id="bio">I'm a software developer and <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedian</a> currently studying computer science at the <a href="//illinois.edu/">University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign</a>. My work mostly focuses on text parsing and analysis, but I'm also interested in programming language theory and algorithm design. Want to chat? Contact me at <a href="mailto:ben.kurtovic@gmail.com">ben.kurtovic@gmail.com</a>.</p>
 <div id="links">
     <div>GitHub<br /><a href="//github.com/earwig">earwig</a></div
-    ><div>Freenode IRC<br /><a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23earwig">Earwig</a></div
+    ><div>Freenode<br /><a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23earwig">Earwig</a></div
     ><div>Wikipedia<br /><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Earwig">The Earwig</a></div
     ><div>Twitter<br /><a href="//twitter.com/the_earwig">@the_earwig</a></div
     ><div>LinkedIn<br /><a href="//linkedin.com/in/benkurtovic">benkurtovic</a></div