There's really good books on Data Mining at Borders, and a recent bunch of "collective intelligence" books; the Manning books are excellent, but you have know java; you probably also want to install Weka and R, look at the Python suite (numpy, scipy, matplotlib), tools like that; also look up the ~107 (!) algorithms that Bellkor used for Netflix comp.
http://machinelearning.reddit.com
http://mloss.org
http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do
http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Intelligent-Web-Haralambos-...
http://www.amazon.com/Mahout-Action-Sean-Owen/dp/1935182684/...
http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-...
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Hackers-Drew-Conway/d...
http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Action-Peter-Harringt...
http://www.metaoptimize.com/qa
http://stats.stackexchange.com