More refinement of docs

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ The Python scientific stack, compiled to WebAssembly.
 It provides transparent conversion of objects between Javascript and Python.
 When inside a browser, this means Python has full access to the Web APIs.
 
+**While closely related to the [iodide project](https://iodide.io), Pyodide may
+be used standalone in any context where you want to run Python inside a web
+browser.**
+
 See [the demo](https://iodide.io/pyodide-demo/python.html)
 
 # Building

docs/new_packages.md

@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ automatically.
 ## The meta.yaml file
 
 Packages are defined by writing a `meta.yaml` file. The format of these files is
-based on the `meta.yaml` files used to build [Conda packages](TODO: Add URL),
+based on the `meta.yaml` files used to build [Conda
+packages](https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/tasks/build-packages/define-metadata.html),
 though it is much more limited. The most important limitation is that Pyodide
 assumes there will only be one version of a given library available, whereas
 Conda allows the user to specify the versions of each package that they want to