Leonard Lin points to this dyanmic Facewall interface which features folks turning their heads to look at who you've zoomed into.
Totally coolio.
The idea is that as you roll over a face, that person's details
appear. This way you don't have to wait for another page to load – to
find out something about somebody.
These sort of dyanmic UIs are exactly what Laszlo Systems is great for.
God help you – if you wanna build something like this with a timeline.