Another interesting #jQuery plugin Wookmark which lays out a series of images in a dynamic column grid.

Wookmark jQuery Plugin

Javascript to create a waterfall grid layout.

Interesting #jQuery timeline.

Timeline is open source software and is licensed under the BSD license. This software was originally sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the SIMILE project. Its original author is David François Huynh. Now it is being maintained and developed by many members of this open-source community....

There is also a @TYPO3 extension in TER:
http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/pcsimiletimeline/