I am a complete book freak (I read and buy books all the time... it is clinical and I need to get on medication.) I read eveything from Flash books, to John Grisham, to Tolken to ASP.NET books, to Douglas Coupland:

Fiction:

• Microserfs
• All Families are Psychotic
• The Testament
• The Street Lawyer
• The Hitchhiker's Guide

Design

• Designing Interactions
• Idea Spotting
• PhotoShop CS2
• Illustrator CS2
• CorelDraw 12

Sharepoint:

• Developer's Guide to the Windows Sharepoint Service 3.0 Platform
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Flash:

• Flash 8 Professional
• Flash Communication Server Development
• ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary

.NET

• C# 2005
• Professional VB 2005

Web

• PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites
• HTML Utopia: Designing without Tables using CSS
• DHTML and CSS Advanced
• The Zen of CSS Design
• Professional Ajax
• JavaScript and Ajax for the Web

Video:

• Vegas Video Editing Workshop
• Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook

Links, linking and more links: Here are a few of them that I hope you find inspiring:

Friends:

• Hexatrope
• Juxtaviews
• TopXML
• Fjax

Design:

• AIGA
• Adobe Design Center
• What the font?
• Lorem Ipsum Generator
• Typophile Bloglist
• Adobe Creative License site
• idio magazine
• helvetica film
• John Nack on Adobe
• Real World Illustrator
• Typblography

Development:

• Ajaxian
• Adobe Development Center
• ASP.NET Blogs
• Robert Burke's Blog
• Creating Dynamic Web Sites with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts
• Creating Web Parts in Windows SharePoint
• Working with Image Objects in InfoPath 2003 and SQL Server 2000
• A new way of Dealing with Config Settings in ASP.NET 2.0
• ReportViewing Control is Visual Studio 2k5 for SQL Report Server
• Office 2007 Learning Portal
• SharePoint 2007 Branding Uber Resource List
• Todd Baginski's Sharepoint 2k7 blog
• Mark Harrison Sharepoint Blog

Flash:

• The FWA
• tokyo plastics v.2

Fun:

• Sony Creative
• Swift 3D
• Viva Graphics
• CSS Zen Garden

Music:

• Switchfoot
• Badly Drawn Boy
• Katy McDonald
• Shawn McDonald
• Paul Wright
• Riley Armstrong
• VMG