This sucks. I didn't really care about MJ (he was before my time), but Billy Mays was cool. My mom actually bought us one of those grabber things a few years back as a gag Christmas gift because it was all over the TV. It actually worked too, but then she threw it out when me and my brother started sword fighting with it.
RIP Billy.
(I wonder whats going to happen to his show on the Discovery Channel? I doubt they would keep it going with just Anthony Sullivan, and Billy always hated that Vince dude from Sham-Wow, so it looks like there's nobody to keep it going. That show was pretty neat, too.)