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HTML

<div id="feedResult"> 
            <li>Search Results will be inserted here ...</li> 
</div>

JavaScript

(function($){
    $.fn.extend({ 
        //plugin name - scrollMe
        jsfeed: function(options) {
 
            var defaults = {
                feedUrl: 'http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=f299328bcad0cff9273fa35bb5d975c5&_render=json', // the url to the feed you need to pul in
                axis: 'vertical', // the axis horizontal or vertical
                scrollWidth: 300, // the scroll width
                scrollHeight: 100, // the scroll height
                speed: "slow", // scroll speed
                items_per_page: 2, // number off items per page
                navClass: "MFSN",
                scrollId: "feedResult"
            };
             
            var options = $.extend(defaults, options);
            
            
            function getFeed(){
                 
                    $.getJSON(options.feedUrl+'&callback=?', function(json) {
                        
                        
                        console.log(json);
                        
                         console.log("items"+options.items_per_page);
                         console.log("json"+json.feed.entry.length);
                         
                         var max_length = json.feed.entry.length;
                         var max_elem   = max_length / options.items_per_page - 1;
                         var page_count   = max_length / options.items_per_page;
                         console.log('max pages'+max_elem);
                         var height = options.scrollHeight * options.items_per_page;
                         console.log('height'+height);
                         var html = '';
                         $.each(json.feed.entry, function(i, blogger) {
                         
                         console.log(blogger);
                         
                          // strip blogger tags
               var content = strip_tags(blogger.content.$t).substr(0,80);
               html += '<li...