Randy bothered me about this yesterday, because most of the ones out there stink. So I spent this morning giving my mind some stimilution from doing the same old thing my clients request. I did the whole thing in JavaScript, except for the actual fetching of the XML, since you can't request that from a remote host. I still need to make it so it resizes the images nicely, but there are some issues with that and the fact that there are so many Russians using LJ and they are using really slow image hosting.
Check it out, and let me know what you think. Offer me a job to do something exciting!