* This site is new, but could be useful: Adoption Search. It's an index of adoption-related stuff on the net, all in one easy-to-search location. Including, uh, this blog here.

* I've just been browsing a bit through Wikipedia's "Adoption" Category, which makes for interesting reading, and even more interesting links out to other sites. Articles range from Adopted Child Syndrome (a controversial diagnosis of which I'd never heard before) to Disruption, the Half the Sky Foundation and Operation Babylift. And bunches more.

* For science fans: an article giving some chemical reasons why adoptive motherhood can feel like biological motherhood, and another one on the effects of adoption on birth fathers, since no one ever talks about birth fathers. (If you're not an academic, you can probably only read the abstracts of those articles, but that gives you everything you need to know anyway.)

* If you're reading this thing, you've probably read dozens of profiles of China, but so far, I think only the marvelous BBC has the national anthem along with the dry facts about population and industry. I love national anthems. I've been singing N'kosi Sikeleli to myself for days.