"sioclog is a system for logging and displaying activity on IRC channels."

"A simple, faked ident daemon"

BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.

"tircd presents twitter as an irc channel. You can connect to tircd with any irc client, and twitter as if you were on irc". anyone else find this software cool, hilarious, and potentially a horrible idea all at the same time? willing to give it a shot though.

yay!

"For peeps wrestling with a Laconica install - irc://irc.freenode.org/#laconica"

a couple of interesting IRC bots among other things