I got one of these for Christmas last year. I /love/ it. It's perfect for staying warm on the couch and still using my laptop easily (and without feeling like my laptop is about to slip off my lap).

My sister calls them "army blankets". :)

And if you want to know whether you're safe or not, you can keep an eye on this site:

http://HasTheLargeHadronColliderDestroyedTheWorldYet.com

And there's even an RSS feed so you can be notified right away.

I kept expecting the baby to EAT the microphone. That baby weighs more than my five-year-old daughter!

A quick Google Earth check shows the pentagram thing in Athens, Ohio isn't quite true. If you want to see, here you go:

http://mboffin.com/stuff/no-athens-pentagram.png

It's not perfect because I just quickly sketched it out, but it's a stretch to construe any five of those possible cemeteries as making a pentagram around Ohio University.