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jQuery Style - A gallery of awesome sites built with jQuery

jQueryStyle is a web design showcase with a difference, the difference, of course being that we showcase great looking sites that use the jQuery javascript framework in interesting, thought provoking and cool ways.

via: Airbag

If the New York Times are going broke it's good to they are still experimenting with their online presentation.

NYT Article Skimmer (Prototype) is a Jquery based application presenting a summary of main stories/articles by category.

As yet it doesn't gracefully fall back to any alternative if you have JS off.
Though a little sluggish, it works ok on my iPhone.
NYT Article Skimmer post