I needed to randomly reorder the <li>'s in a <ul> each time the page loaded. I couldn't find anything to do this that would actually show all the elements at once -- everything I found was slideshow-related -- so I wrote a little plugin:
http://blog.rebeccamurphey.com/2007/12/11/jquery-plugin-randomly-reorder-children-elements/ In my particular case today, I needed it to randomly reorder a list of case studies, but I can imagine other uses as well. Curious for any thoughts/suggestions for improvement.