Remember Gallery 1988's gee-whiz Crazy 4 Cult show we mentioned yesterday? Here's a doozy from this year's show — the retro vinyl LP "Serenity" by River Tam and the Fireflies. Note: it's a Serenity-centric album, so there's no Jayne's Song.

Check out this amazing animated River Tam maquette, going up for sale tomorrow from Quantum Mechanix, makers of our favorite Firefly scwhag. Pile of Reaver corpses sold separately.

A neuroscience professor has teamed up with a composer in the hopes of making music that stimulates different areas of the brain. Here's a first-person account of what it's like to experience "weapons grade sound design."

I have to admit, I thought you'd go for vampires. But the winners of this week's Halloween Smackdown were easily witches, which can only mean one thing: Smackdown Showdown. Witches trump all other monsters, but can they beat River Tam?