[Homunculiheaded]

Kaggle has blog posts of many of the past winners: http://blog.kaggle.com/category/dojo/

For algorithms, just try whatever you know best/is fastest to implement. If you're using R I highly recommend the Caret package.

For papers: the best place to get started is to begin browsing the forums or any similar contests, the community there is actually pretty awesome and will frequently post papers. After that google scholar (or even just google) for particular problems will yield nice results.

Also checkout the wiki: http://www.kaggle.com/wiki/Home