Michael Jackson died today…

Here’s the 1983 Motown performance in which Michael first performed his signature moonwalk on TV:

And here’s the highlight from a more recent Billy Jean performance:

Indeed, The King is dead…

The world’s first Augmented Reality browser is here, and no, it’s not for the iPhone.

SPRXmobile, a Dutch company, has created Layar, an Android-based browser that uses the phone’s compass and GPS coordinates to figure out where you are and what the phone camera is looking at.

A layer of information is drawn on top of the display, continually updating as you look at different things!

A second-generation Indian-American’s understanding of Diwali:

So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or somethin’, was kind of a bitch with a real mean ass attitude, and she forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude Ram, to some real kick ass woods or some national reserve forest or somethin’… Since he was going, for like, somethin’ like more than 10 years or so… he decided to get his wife and his bro along… you know…so that they could all chill out together. But Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary shit… really man…they had monkeys and devils and shit like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked with darts and bows and arrows… so I guess it was cool.

But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita) and lures her away to his hood. And Boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman, pissed… all the Gods were with him… So anyways, you don’t mess with Gods. So, Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys… Dude, don’t ask me how they trained them damn monkeys… just go along with me, OK…???

So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta’s ass in his own hood… Anyways, by this time, their time’s up in the forest… and anyways… it gets kinda boring, you know… no TV or malls or shit like that. So, they decided to hitch a ride back home… and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home… they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice… and they didn’t have any bars or clubs in those days… so they couldn’t take them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and shit… and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also…so it was pretty cooool… you know with all those fireworks…. Really, they even had some local band play along with the fireworks… and you know, what, dude, that was the very first, no kidding.., that was the very first music-synchronized fireworks… you know, like the 4th of July stuff, but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was how, like, this festival started.

To read the more accurate (but far less entertaining) version click here.