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"Look, they even gathered a crowd! Impressed." - Kevin Lim

Here is a critical analysis of Farmville, its deceptively slow level grind, how a number of gameplay features end up as simply decorative since they aren't balanced with the benefits of raising crops, and discussing why Farmville succeeds so well in virally spreading itself and addicting people. - Kevin Lim

In 1992, a student by the name of Francesco Cirillo was looking for a way of improving his study habits. He took a tomato-shaped kitchen timer (hence the name Pomodoro) and found that if he broke tasks into 25-minute sessions, now known as Pomodoros, followed by a 5-minute break, and then took a longer 15-minute break after four Pomodoros, he was able to concentrate more fully on the tasks at hand and accomplish more work. - Kevin Lim

Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers. - Kevin Lim

"If there's anyone out there left who says you can't measure social media, here are a hundred answers." - Kevin Lim

"WANT!!!" - Kevin Lim

"Learning with Lily Allen: Copyright Criminals or Complexity and Confusion?" is Tama Leaver's poetic journey on the rise of Lily Allen and her misread defense of copyright. - Kevin Lim

Viewfinder is a Mac OS X application that dramatically simplifies the process of finding, downloading and using images from Flickr. - Kevin Lim

“The people playing these games on social networks don’t define themselves as gamers — they are just killing time, having fun,” Mr. Liew said. - Kevin Lim

Cherian George discusses why the RSF Press Freedom Index is flawed. While methodologically questionable, I'd play devil's advocate by saying that Singapore has a relatively small and docile population, thus fewer incidents / arrests. - Kevin Lim

"Your AT signal strength headband completes the look! It's all about the little details ;)" - Kevin Lim

The Archivist, a Windows application that runs on your local system and allows you to archive tweets for later data-mining and analysis for a given search. - Kevin Lim

Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and one of the country's best-known intellectuals. ``No brain is wasted in Singapore.'' - Kevin Lim

Watson and Crick, who discovered the structure of DNA, are described in Richard Ogle's book Smart World: At times the two central protagonists behaved like people whose day job was working up skits for Monty Python....they had distinctly lackadaisical work habits. Watson played several sets of tennis every afternoon and spent his evenings alternately chasing 'popsies' at Cambridge parties and going to the movies. Crick, who rarely showed up at the lab before 10 AM and took a coffee break and hour later repeatedly appeared to lose interest in the problem of DNA. On more than one occasion, vital piece of information were obtained not through hard work but as a result of chance conversations in the tea line at the Cavendish laboratory. - Kevin Lim

"A tweetup is a meetup for local twitter users, and anyone can organize one for their city. We have our own Buffalo Tweetup web site at http://buffalotweetup.ning.com" - Kevin Lim

Why do some authors or research groups fail to cite research that looks especially relevant? Darren Naish shares some possible answers. - Kevin Lim

"Good choice! Ghost in the Shell: SAC is definitely one of my greatest inspiration, and so is it for movies like The Matrix :D" - Kevin Lim

"Thanks Pa, Litford, Ivan and Walter! You guys are awesome :D" - Kevin Lim

"Sincerely John, SJ, Mary-Helen... thank you for all your kind words!" - Kevin Lim

"Haha Dan, I'm glad I'm in good company! Let's not forget the best feature of all: Some of the Xacti cameras are really the cheapest prosumer HD cams around!" - Kevin Lim

"Haha Dan, I'm glad I'm in good company! Let's not forget the best feature of all: Some of the Xacti cameras are really the cheapest prosumer HD cams around!" - Kevin Lim

"Thanks again Daniel, I took a look at the school's emphasis and it looks oriented around computer science than social computing. There's no mention of studying online communities, etc. :)" - Kevin Lim

"Thanks Anivyl / Hwan Tong. It's been a long time since we last communicated online!" - Kevin Lim

"Daniel, that's a possibility, though the university is oriented around the business school. Only relevant area seems to be the School of Social Sciences: http://www.socsc.smu.edu.sg. Will keep in view. :)" - Kevin Lim

"Congrats on your teaching position at Thammasat University. Besides possibly visiting you in Bangkok, I'm interested to conduct Internet Use research across Asia, so it's great to know that you're in Thailand. :)" - Kevin Lim

"Thanks Peter, I remember you. Well, I'm heading back to Singapore for a while, but looking for a teaching or research job in either Singapore or the States. Thailand isn't too far from Singapore, we could meet up on vacation :)" - Kevin Lim

"THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS TRICIA" - Kevin Lim

"Thanks for the compliment Kyuonghee. Wish you all the best in your PhD program too :)" - Kevin Lim

The Museum of Animal Perspectives (MAP) collects and displays wildlife imagery that has been captured using remote sensing cameras. Through the presentation and interpretation of this imagery, the MAP endeavors to expand the public's capacity to empathize with animals and plants. The MAP is curated and coded by video artist Sam Easterson. - Kevin Lim

"Thanks Pa! Came down to 95% perseverance and 5% luck. All I can say is WHEW!" - Kevin Lim

"Haha, thanks Kenny. Finally!!" - Kevin Lim