Jim has provided a good rundown of key points from the web design and usability conference dconstruct. Throughout the day speakers mentioned books and these are the ones that caught my attention:
Game Feel: A Game Designer's Guide to Virtual Sensation by Steve Swink
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Martin Minsky
Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas by Richard Ogle
The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves by Brian Arthur
And don't miss one of the speakers Nathan Shedroff's teaching materials on web design