Wednesday's Links: Evolution for Dummies

* This guy still understands evolution better than most of Congress.

* COPS: Skyrim is almost as entertaining as real life.

* The history of Google is another successful American Dream story.

* The International Space Station's ambassador to the internet is at it again!

* Nate Silver is using his statistical powers to analyze your failing relationship.

* Reuben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug cartoon presents "Star Se-Trek-Ster"

* Chuck Grassley tells the gruesome story behind one of his most popular tweets.

* SimCity is not only the model for Herman Cain's tax plan, it's also a model for urban development.

Tags: Barack Obama, Chuck Grassley, Daily Links, Evolution, Google, Herman Cain, International Space Station, Nate Silver, Police, Racism, Sequester, Space, Twitter, Video Games

America's Least-Googled Presidents

As every pedant knows, today is Presidents' Day, not President's Day. In other words, we have mattress sales in honor of  all our chief executives, not just the good or famous ones.

Today, we even honor the presidents too obscure to be Googled by schoolchildren forced to learn American history:

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Tags: Google, History, Internet, President's Day

Our Endorsements: Al Roker Is a Card

* A sympathy card for Al Roker haters.

* It's so hard to say goodbye to 30 Rock.

* Keep calm and carry on, Kate Middleton.

* Google teaches us how to speak in Flanders.

* Ever seen a grown man naked, Mr. President?

* A detailed article on how the NASA space pen works.

* Does homeowners' insurance cover damage from a robot war?

* #TheTCOTComedian is a joke. A hilarious joke that we hope never ends.

Tags: Al Roker, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Daily Links, Google, Jack Lew, Jimmy Fallon, Kate Middleton, NASA, The Onion, Tina Fey, Twitter, White House

Bill Richardson and Eric Schmidt Go to North Korea

Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson is going on a humanitarian trip to North Korea with his best bud, Google executive Eric Schmidt, even though the State Department doesn't want them to go. Stop harshing our mellow, State Department! What excellent adventures will these radical dudes have over there?

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Tags: Bill Richardson, Google, New Mexico, North Korea, State Department

Paul Ryan Defeats Ron Paul in Google War

As my colleague Lisa Beth Johnson reported yesterday, Mitt Romney won 2012's Twitter battle, easily besting Barack Obama as the year's highest trending political figure. If only RTs really were endorsements, President Romney and Vice President #tcot would be leading their transition teams right now.

Not to be outdone by the top of the GOP ticket, Paul Ryan was declared by Google to be the highest trending politician of 2012, besting Ron Paul, Obama, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Gary Johnson, Todd Akin, Joe Biden and Rick Perry, respectively.

The Romney-Ryan presidential campaign/world's greatest SEO team also took the top four spots in the category of most searched for political gaffes with Big bird, 47 percent, binders full of women and airplane windows all beating out Akin's musing about legitimate rape.

As expected, all these new media conquests have left conservatives positively giddy.

Now, if only there was some process for determining which side's political ideas were really more popular with the American public.

Previously
Todd Akin Opposes Abortion in Cases of Non-Pregnancy
Paul Ryan's New Dance Craze
Take These Polls Out of Your Asses, America

Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images News/Getty Images

Tags: Google, Internet, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Twitter