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As a rule, feature stories are limited in
their time online, due to bandwidth worries and at times, because of dated
irrelevance (example: an Oscar/Golden-Globes nominees list, which isn't
much use after the awards show has already revealed who won!). However, if
we didn't have the heart to delete a feature story, or it simply got too
much feedback to remove it, it'll be listed here. See some of what you
missed!...
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Past Feature Stories : |
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Oscar's Biggest Blunders!
Did your favorite movie win Best Picture at the Academy Awards this
year? Probably not! Here is an alphabetical list of Oscar's top ten
"Best Picture" goofs. |
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The Best and
Wost Superbowl
Commercials (2010). "The Green Police" was among the
very worst. Which was best? |
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The Best and
Wost Superbowl
Commercials (2009). In light of the above list; here's
a repost of the prior year's hits and misses. Were the ads any
better? |
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The
Best Sci-Fi Robots of All Time This was the feature story
during both the cinematic and DVD releases of Disney Pixar's Wall-e.
What were the best robots of all time? |
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...and
The
Worst robots were also listed.
Enjoy! |
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Techtite News
was a weekly news column which never was
terribly profitable and due to minimal manpower and even more
minimal budget, it had to be "cancelled" in late 2008.
Here is a link to the last news
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The Top Ten Most
Intriguing New Shows. The
2008 fall season is looking pretty good. Here's the best of it.
more... |
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Fall TV's
"Unlucky Seven," 2008.
Hey; if you're a fan of these newbies, that's
cool, though even diehard fans must admit these shows are flawed,
and if the flaws aren't fixed...! |
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The Oddest Games I Ever
Played!
This site's founder and diehard game fan/critic, Steve Akyuz,
reminisces this week about some of the most bizarre moments in video
game history. more... |
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The Oddest Games I Ever
Played!
This site's founder and diehard game fan/critic, Steve Akyuz,
reminisces this week about some of the most bizarre moments in video
game history. more... |
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The
Most Intriguing New Fall Shows, 2007. These are the
shows that will most likely get cancelled because they rock, and
networks most often...don't.
more... |
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The
Fall "Unlucky Seven" 2007. We're not saying this shows
are totally awful; just flawed. In a day when shows are cancelled
left and right; that's not good.
more... |
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The WORST
Characters Of Great Sci-Fi.
One guess who made #1. The other nine, however...
more... |
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The
Worst Sci-Fi Shows of All Time. Which
one-season wonders made our list of the biggest sci-fi series
blunders of all time? You might be surprised...about one or two of
them, anyway. Enjoy...! more... |
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Top
Ten Best Superbowl Commercials. (2007 Edition) |
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Top
Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials. ('07)
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The Ten Best
"Survival Tips" For Dead Rising.
If you're surviving well against 52,000
zombies you might not need this list. If you don't like being eaten,
by all means read on. more...
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The
Most Intriguing New Fall Shows, 2006.
We'll begin reviewing new shows starting this
week, now that the fall season is beginning. Here are which shows we're
most interested in. more... |
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Top
Ten Best Superbowl Commercials. (the 2006 Edition)
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Top
Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials.
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The
Best TV Holiday Episodes of All Time! 'nuf said.
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The
Most Disappointing Holiday Entertainment of All Time! ditto...
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Techtite
News. In 2005 there was a dry patch for this site's news
blog. Click this link for the
"farewell message" at the time, and if
you so wish, backtrack to see what the page looked like back then.
It's back permanently now. Maybe.
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The
Most Intriguing New Fall Shows, 2005. 'nuf said there.
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Top
Ten Best Superbowl Commercials, 2005. Underdog really
saved the day this year. more...
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Top
Ten Worst Superbowl Commercials, 2005. Is it just me or
is that baby "Bob" just plain creepy? more...
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The
Best New Shows: Fall, 2004. It's fall again, and that means
another look at the most intriguing new shows. more...
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Fall
2004's "Unlucky Seven. Far too sad as a "top
ten" list; here are the seven new series concepts that may not last
long. If you like them, be sure to keep them taped! more...
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The Top Ten WORST Characters That Ever Happened to Great Cartoons.
Sure, there have been bad characters in bad cartoons. What were the worst to
happen to the
best? more...
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The
Top Ten Things We'll Miss About Sex
and the City These are the things that made the series
great...
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Ten Things We Won't Miss About Sex and
the City ...and these are the things that make us glad the
finale aired. Phew!
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Top
Ten Best Superbowl Commercials, 2004. You liked the 2003
list so much; here's the 2004 installment. more...
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Top Ten Worst Superbowl
Commercials, 2004. You can't win them all. Here were the
crash-and-burn mistakes. more...
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Top
Ten WORST Superbowl Commercials, 2003. Seems like a perfect
companion to the ten best list, wouldn't you say? It's also fun to
remember the flubs. more...
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Top
Ten BEST Superbowl Commercials, 2003. Who won the Superbowl?
Who cares! What really matters is which commercials kept us
from the refrigerator during commercial breaks. Now THAT'S tough! more...
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A
Holiday Story...in Origami! This was an old Christmas
story my friends and I used to pass around in the 1980's. Being the holiday
season, why not share it? more...
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What
Was It About "Battlestar Galactica"?
Over 25 years later this one-season-wonder still has a loyal
following. Why? One former ten-year-old offers ten good reasons. more...
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What
Wasn't Good About Galactica...? How much time do you
have? Just kidding. There were flaws, though. Big, steaming stinking
piles of them! Here's the worst of the worst. more...
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New fall TV season summaries: The
Best Of New Fall TV, and "The
Unlucky Seven" (the shows that might not make it!
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A
Dozen Ways to Improve Enterprise. It's good, though
not great. For the only current Star Trek series, this is not good
at all. Here are a dozen ideas to up the ante. more...
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Techtite.com's Third,
Semi- Annual, Top-10 Mysteries of Oscar Night, SOLVED!*
Okay; make that slightly solved. Here are a few
answers to your most burning questions. more...
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"The
Top Ten Most Under-Appreciated Thrillers!
Just in time for Halloween, Techtite explores the video rental
aisles, for the best of the least-watched (or least
appreciated!) more...
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The
Five Biggest BLUNDERS in "Halloween Games"... The
games on this list were only scary when looking at the hours wasted
playing them. Check out the list, and be afraid...
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"The
Top Dozen BEST 'Halloween Games' ever made" It takes a lot to make
people feel thrilled and chilled in a video game. These games
succeeded. 'nuf said!
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Top
10 Cartoons Gone Awry! Yes,
only 10 mistakes! These are the cartoon concepts that made a
very bad transition to the TV screen. Yes, the list includes Dynomutt.
more...
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The
Top Ten Mysteries of Oscar Night, SOLVED! Well...sort of.
From Marisa Tomei's Supporting Actress win, to Saving Private Ryan's
loss to Shakespeare in Love, see Techtite's insight on some of the
bigger questions ever asked on Oscar's big night. more...
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Oscar
Nominees, 2003: "And the (Deserved) Winners Should Be..."
Steve Martin hosts. That's good news. Minority
Report and Catch Me If You Can were snubbed; that's the bad. more...
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Top
Ten Best New Shows, 2002.
Okay, so looking back on this list I was more than a little bit off.
Okay, I was WAY off! I still had high hopes for these shows, based on
their inspired pilot episodes. FYI: only three of these shows actually
lasted to their second season! |
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The Techtite Re-play Award Winners!
Constantly updated (or so gamers always hope!), these are the
games that we actually played again...and again...and again... |
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Top
10 Changes CBS needs to make to "Big Brother"
Did you even know BB's second season was on at all? Here's ten things
CBS needs to change, before they attempt this reality TV concept ever
again. |
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and, still online:
some of the first "Features" ever posted!:
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Evil
Otto LIVES!
STILL ONLINE! Evil Otto, classic gamers will remember,
was one of many icons of classic gaming. Visit here for Techtite's
stroll down memory lane, of all his own classic game systems:
from the Atari 2600, to the 3DO! more...
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