Australia is now at war. Our duty is quite clear: to gird up our loins and remember that we are Britons.
– Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of Australia, 1914

The Mathematical Fiction web site is an interesting sith with reviews and lists of fiction that uses mathematical concepts.

Not surprisingly there are a lot of references to Greg Egan and Ted Chiang stories.

My own Reading By Numbers story has an entry now.

http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf880

Latvian Soviet Ghost Town Sold At Auction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/05/skrunda-soviet-ghost-town_n_450719.html

Only Old People Blog Now
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_blogging_matures

Isle of Man schoolgirl becomes an anime star in Japan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/07/rebecca-flint-anime-beckii-cruel

Japanese monk gets down with the beat for Buddhism
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100208/tod-oukoe-uk-japan-monk-hiphop-life-ae3ea01.html

Underwater Sculpture Park
http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/gallery/underwater-gallery/index.htm

The world’s largest island on a lake, on an island, on a lake, on an island.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/29/philippine-island-qu.html

The 10 most amazing unexplained artifacts
http://www.zmescience.com/other/most-amazing-unexplained-artifacts/

From Fish to Infinity (Explaining maths to children)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/from-fish-to-infinity/

Mathematical Rock Groups (Some cool ideas about numbers)
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/rock-groups/