Fancy Up a List of Articles Into a Dynamic Rotation of Text

Script to change list of articles into a rotation of text

// rotate the articles
var $text = $('#section div.article');
$text.remove();
$text.teasers = [];
$.each($text, function(){
    $text.teasers.push(this);
});
$text.idx = 0;
$text.stage = $('#section div.inset');
$text.stage.html($text.teasers[$text.idx]);
setInterval(function() { 
    if ( $text.teasers.length > ($text.idx+1) ) {
        $text.idx ++ ;
    } else {
        $text.idx = 0;
    }
    $text.stage.html($text.teasers[$text.idx]);
}, 12000);

Soure HTML that script read to rotate articles

<div id="section"><div class="inset">
    <div class="article">
        <h3><a href="">link</a></h3>
        <p>article teaser text...</p>
    </div>
    <div class="article">
        <h3><a href="">link</a></h3>
        <p>article text...</p>
    </div>
    <div class="article">
        <h3><a href="">link</a></h3>
        <p>another article text...</p>
    </div>
</div></div>