Power Puff Girls … Anime?

Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls ZThe Anime News Network website is reporting that Toei Animation and Aniplex are joining forces with Cartoon Network to produce a japanese anime series based on the popular Powerpuff Girls cartoon produced in the US.

The announcement for the new series, entitled “Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z”, was made at this year’s Tokyo Animation Fair, where a poster, promotional artwork and preview video (screenshots) were made available to the public.

The style for this new series seems to be more traditional, if not generic, for japanese anime. This is something of a shame, as the US series used a rather unique, minimalist style to elevate it’s borrowed anime magical girl genre concept to a new level.

Firefox Ups the War on Pop-Ups

If you’ve been using the increasingly popular Firefox open-source web browser, you’ve probably noticed that ads are getting past the automated pop-up blocking that you can enable within the program.

The problem comes from the increasing use of Macromedia Flash and Java to get around the usual pop-up window techniques that Firefox isn’t currently configured to block on command.

Fortunately, the developers seem to be working on new techniques to address these new issues, according to Mozilla employee Asa Dotzler, who has an entry on his blog regarding their latest experimental Firefox extension designed to test some of these new blocking techniques.