* Eric Victorino, Vocals
* Ryan Hernandez, Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer
* Hrag Chanchanian, Bass, Vocals, Piano
* Adrian Robison, Drums, Percussion, Programming

Strata (formerly known as Downside) is an alternative rock band who got their start in suburban San Jose, California in 2000. In 2004 they released their self-entitled album on Wind-Up Records. The band is finished with their second album titled, “Strata Presents The End of the World,” hits stores July 17, 2007. The first single, “Cocaine (We’re All Going to Hell)”, and “Hot/Cold (Darling, Don’t)” off of their new album are currently available on Strata’s MySpace page, as well as PureVolume.com, and Strata’s home page, StrataDirect.com.

They will be touring alongside their record label buddies Finger Eleven on a Canadian Tour in late 2007. Be sure to check out their single ‘Cocaine’ off their soon to be released album “Strata Presents The End of the World” on our BoobNewb Jukebox and buy their album when it comes out in stores soon.

thanks to http://www.wikipedia.com and http://www.aolmusic.com for biography information.

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Harry Houdini was a magician, escape artist and stunt performer. He’s the one magician that every rookie magician wants to imitate. His career started off slow but soon his escape acts would catch the world’s attention. He would go on to perform such great escape acts like freeing himself from jails, handcuffs, chains, ropes, and straitjackets, often while hanging from a rope in plain sight of street audiences. His acts would often involve a large degree of danger or even death and would cause large audiences to gather whenever he performed one of his acts. He also spent a large amount of his time debunking mediums or psychics and calling them out as frauds. He was a believer in science and not spirituality and believed that the mind was the most powerful asset of a human being. Here is one of his better quotes discussing the human mind.

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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke’s work is marked by an optimistic view of science empowering mankind’s exploration of the solar system. His early published stories would usually feature the extrapolation of a technological innovation or scientific breakthrough into the underlying decadence of his own society. He later elaborated on his optimism of the future by creating three “laws” of prediction. We will use his second law for the month of June which we think best describes his train of thought on the future.

Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as “Clarke’s Second Law”

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Robin Thicke is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and occasional actor. Thicke was born to vocalist Gloria Loring and Canadian entertainer Alan Thicke (best known for his role on the sitcom Growing Pains). At the age of 16, Robin struck a deal with the fledgling Nu America Records, a subsidiary of Interscope Records. Thicke has since produced singles for artists such as Usher, Christina Aguilera, Mya, Brandy and even Michael Jackson. In 2005, Robin won a grammy for his collaboration with Usher on his album ‘Confessions’.

In 2002, Thicke released his debut single “When I Get You Alone”. The album gained some success in the United States but became an international hit single in countries like Italy, Australia and the Netherlands.In 2005, Thicke performed as a guest on the remix of Will Smith’s international hit, “Switch”. He signed a deal with the Neptunes own record label, ‘Star Trak’ and began to work on his next album entitled ‘The Evolution of Robin Thicke’. His second album was released on October 3, 2006. To promote the album, Thicke toured with R&B artists India Arie and John Legend in late 2006. His second single, the ballad “Lost Without U” reached as high as number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100, and number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.Robin will be appearing on 50 Cent’s new album “Curtis”, coming out June 25, 2007.

Thicke is also slated to guest on R&B singer Ashanti’s fourth studio album “Incredible” set to be released in mid to late 2007. He has also been announced as the opening act on Beyonce’s upcoming North American tour. Be sure to check out Robin Thicke’s hit single “Lost Without You” in our BoobNewb Jukebox and go buy his album “The Evolution of Robin Thicke” which is in stores now.

-Thanks to http://www.wikipedia.org for some of the biography information.

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If you haven’t yet noticed; we here at BoobNewb love vending machines. We love them because they provide goodies in a quick and timely manner for lazy people like us. In North America, we’re pretty tame when it comes to vending machines. In countries like the Netherlands, you can get fast food meals out of vending machines and in Japan they sell everything from shoes to women’s panties in vending machines. We simply sell chips, chocolate bars and on the rare occasion a nice bagel or sandwich. There are many companies and entrepreneurs that are trying to find new ways to use vending machine technology to enrich our lives. Here are a few neat concepts surrounding vending machines that you may see being used in the near future.

This vending machine is used to charge up electronics such as PDAs , MP3 players, cell phones and other such electronic devices.The ChargeBox offers a solution, which consists of 6 small lockers, each with 4 unique chargers that can power 90% of our mobile devices.Many airports don’t allow the recharging of electronics due to energy consumption concerns so this vending machine is designed to allow users to pay a fee and have their items recharged for them in about one hour’s time.

Motorola has come up with a great new vending machine that offers cell phones and cell phone accessories to users in high traffic areas. It can be a pain in the ass to have lost a cell phone or charger and have all the electronics stores closed. This option will allow users to purchase these things in case they ever run into a situation like this where they need a cell phone or charger right away without hesitation.

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