A fade in/out carousel snippet.

carousel.js

// The jQuery for this carousel
var $featured = $('.featured'),
    $featurenav = $('.featurenav')
      .delegate('button', 'click', function(){
        $featurenav
          .children()
          .css('color', '#bbb');

        var $this = $(this).css('color', 'black');

        $featured
          .children('article')
          .fadeOut()
          .eq( parseInt($this.text()) -1 )
            .fadeIn();
      })