Mark Otto creating amazing 3D text with multiple drop shadows only
css-tricks.com having fun with blurred text using transparent text, text-shadow, modernizr and jQuery
mozillademos.org’s Planetarium using a nice choice of typefaces and some text-shadow. And you can learn something about our solar system, too!
The Chartwell font family uses OpenType ligatures to change numbers to charts. The really nice part is that the non-ligature fallback still makes sense because users and user agents will see the numbers then.
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg using text-shadow, box-shadow and a clever choice of fonts
neography.com using rotation, text-shadow and box-shadow
Jason Santa Maria for the Lost World’s Fairs series using lettering.js: Moon
simurai using CSS 3 transitions, text-shadows and rotation
Trent Walton using text-shadow and background-clip