This has got to be simple; what am I doing wrong?
Velocity doesn't seem to want to do anything.
1) you have to change this:
$("p").velocity( { width: 50px }, 1000);
on this:
$("p").velocity( { width: "50px" }, 1000);
2) you are using resources from github. but these resources are loaded not as *.js files but as plain text (with MIME type text/plain instead of text/javascript). So, you have to change this. Here is my example on JSBin http://jsbin.com/fatihopipe/1/edit?html,css,js,output