Here’s what .net magazine thinks are the top 50 web design books. I haven’t read them all, but it is interesting that the titles they picked range from fairly technical to practical good sense to broadly philosophical.
Accessible form validation with HTML5 from Deque Systems uses HTML5, adds ARIA, and finally adds jQuery validation. This is the first of three parts.
Jakob Neilsen joins the list of critiques of Windows 8 for poor usability. Here are some early reviews of Windows 8 from several other sources.