The Varsity Theater in the Manulife Center in Toronto opened premium theater rooms back in the late 90's, early 2000's. Big seats the reclined, maybe 40 to a room. Good viewing from any seat. Wait staff to fetch you drinks and food. The food was from the regular food counter, but they already had a pretty odd selection of foodstuffs at that theater.

I saw a movie in one once. Just wasn't worth the $30/seat. Not sure if they still run the rooms or not.

Ohhh...want a fun drinking game? Drink every time you see some form of the word "active" in that press release! You'll be tipsy in no time.

@Chris Schmidt: Thanks. That's a neat way to go about loading your homebrew games. How easy is it to compile for the Wii if the official Dev Kit and license from Nintendo are expensive?

Is this a temporary hack or a permanent hack? Nintendo seems to be taking the line that you can hack your Wii but don't blame us if the hack + an update from Nintendo in the future bricks the thing.

That kind of funny...I was looking at my son's diaper just this weekending thinking that the amount of technology in the modern poop/pee-containing device is pretty cool. Fasteners for sure. And then all the super absorbent stuff that soaks up all the mess.

So, he can build a machine that violates the laws of physics, but he can't operate a video camera and an overhead light well enough to say...umm...take a decent picture of his device. Or even illuminate the display on his little RPM meter. Or actually discuss it coherently on camera.

Uh huh.

Amusing indeed.

@#58: Is it really nice? If charged with a crime, would you be tried in an Ontario court according to Canadian law or would you be kidnapped to some Usanian dungeon? Aren't those customs areas technically Usanian territory?
You'd be charged, held and tried as a Canadian in Canada. They can only deny you entry into the US. That's it. They'll probably flag you in The Machine too so you'll never travel through the US again. But hey, Canada is comfortable, so no love lost there. The customs screening areas are most definitely *not* US territory. The agents work on behalf of the US and only determine your eligibility to enter the US. You are still a Canadian on Canadian soil in those areas (hence the sign).

Cory, I'm not sure when you were at U of T but it was no better at College Park during my years there (1996-2001). As payment we used to march our engineering frosh, all freshly dipped in purple, through their food court every frosh week.

Hmm...maybe that's why they hate U of T students? :)

I used to get all worked up traveling from my home in Canada to the US. We clear US Customs on the Canadian side of the border in our larger airports and the thought of being detained by TSA morons in my own country really used to get under my skin. Last trip to the US, from Ottawa to Chicago, there was a sign up in the screening area letting you know that, unless you are charged with a crime, you a free to leave the area any time you like.

That was a nice touch. Made the screening area feel a little less like no-man's land when it came to rights and civil liberties.

Returning home, on the US side, those screening areas still feel like holding cells where you're guilty until you prove yourself innocent.