The first effect tries to mimick the animated thingy on
the upper-left corner of the window in Mozilla
(probably could still use some tweaking):
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/gimp/transitions/TransMozilla.pl
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/gimp/transitions/TransMozilla.mpg
The second effect, writen by Guillermo S. Romero, has to be seen to be believed!
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/gimp/transitions/TransEatTheFilm.pl
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cwant/gimp/transitions/TransEatTheFilm.mpg
Chris