diff --git a/doc/source/_static/random.js b/doc/source/_static/random.js
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+++ b/doc/source/_static/random.js
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+
+   function insert_gallery() {
+       var images = ['http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_otsu.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_canny.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_medial_transform.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_skeleton.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_glcm.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_lena_tv_denoise.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_equalize.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_watershed.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_convex_hull.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_contours.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_hough_transform.png', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/plot_radon_transform.png'];
+       var links = ['http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_otsu.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_canny.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_medial_transform.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_skeleton.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_glcm.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_lena_tv_denoise.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_equalize.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_watershed.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_convex_hull.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_contours.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_hough_transform.html', 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_plot_radon_transform.html'];
+
+       ix = Math.floor(Math.random() * images.length);
+       document.write(
+'<div class="gallery_image">      <a href="URL"><img src="IMG"/></a></div>'.replace('IMG', images[ix]).replace('URL', links[ix])
+       );
+
+       console.log('<div class="gallery_image">      <a href="URL"><img src="IMG"/></a></div>'.replace('IMG', images[ix]).replace('URL', links[ix]));
+   };
+
diff --git a/doc/source/random_gallery.py b/doc/source/random_gallery.py
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+# Generate a javascript snippet that links to a random gallery example
+
+import os
+import glob
+
+base = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+example_dir = os.path.join(base, 'auto_examples')
+js_fn = os.path.join(base, '_static/random.js')
+
+javascript = '''\
+
+   function insert_gallery() {
+       var images = {{IMAGES}};
+       var links = {{LINKS}};
+
+       ix = Math.floor(Math.random() * images.length);
+       document.write(
+'{{GALLERY_DIV}}'.replace('IMG', images[ix]).replace('URL', links[ix])
+       );
+
+       console.log('{{GALLERY_DIV}}'.replace('IMG', images[ix]).replace('URL', links[ix]));
+   };
+
+'''
+
+gallery_div = '''\
+<div class="gallery_image">
+      <a href="URL"><img src="IMG"/></a>
+</div>\
+'''
+
+examples = glob.glob(os.path.join(example_dir, 'plot_*.py'))
+
+images, links = [], []
+image_url = 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/_images/%s.png'
+link_url = 'http://scikits-image.org/docs/dev/auto_examples/plot_%s.html'
+
+for e in examples:
+    e = os.path.basename(e)
+    e = e[:-len('.py')]
+
+    images.append(image_url % e)
+    links.append(link_url % e)
+
+javascript = javascript.replace('{{IMAGES}}', str(images))
+javascript = javascript.replace('{{LINKS}}', str(links))
+javascript = javascript.replace('{{GALLERY_DIV}}', ''.join(gallery_div.split('\n')))
+
+f = open(js_fn, 'w')
+f.write(javascript)
+f.close()