Joonas Lehtinen of IT Mill has shown us something that we should probably never do. As a proof of concept he decided to see if it was "possible to do a 3D-style animation in plain JavaScript without Flash, SVG, Canvas or any other fancy stuff."
He ended up with a solution that:
Slice a image in 1px [...]
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.