I’d like to know who did the Austin Powers Goldmember Official Movie Site, because their javascript files look awfully familiar. It seems they pretty much just lifted them from glassdog. They didn’t even bother to remove the comment referencing glassdog.

To compare:

• http://www.glassdog.com/js/magic.js
• http://www.austinpowers.com/jscript/library_01.js

Technically they could have gotten this one from siteExperts.com, but since they also use another script which is plainly from glassdog, I think it’s safe to assume it came from glassdog instead of siteExperts.

• http://www.glassdog.com/js/smooth.js
• http://www.austinpowers.com/jscript/library_02.js

Now if this was just another personal site, it wouldn’t be so bad. But this is a commercial site that someone probably paid beaucoup bucks for. So it’s a bit of a letdown. Especially when, and this is in no way meant to insult glassdog, there are much more current, and cross-browser compatible DHTML libraries and functions to be had.

Now for what I really came to rant about.

How did Beyonce Knowles get her role in this film and why is she getting all the focus? I wanna know who they greased to put her in this film. She’s a 2-bit singer whose mommy and daddy have been driving her career since day one and she wouldn’t know Soul if Satan Himself offered to buy hers in exchange for a contract with Mowtown.

Didja notice she was placed in the middle of the poster? Didja? Didja? Didja?!

I can see the family rejecting other layouts, “But Beyonce’s not in the middle in this one. We simply can’t approve a poster where our little girl isn’t featured in the middle. Beyonce’s always in the middle, aren’t you dear? Yes you are my little cash cow.”