Links and Miscellany

I still have some prep work to do for school, so here are some miscellaneous links in lieu of a proper post:

Here is a nice post on fiction written by fictional characters from the All About Romance blog.
Quite interesting and I must admit that I have been intrigued by the Nikki Heat novels allegedly written by Richard Castle. However, the poster forgot Kilgore Trout (mentioned by someone in the comments) and William Ashbless (mentioned by yours truly in the comments.

How exactly did this guy win the Nobel Prize for Economics anyway?
Cause he is advocating exactly the sort of behaviour that caused the current economic woes in the first place. And look, an anti-German swipe, too. I just wonder why the German economy is currently doing better than that of the US.