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Apple has bested Wall Street’s predictions again, this time for its second quarter of 2010 earnings.

On Tuesday Apple reported revenue of $13.5 billion and profits of $3.07 billion, or $3.33 earnings per share. That’s a 49 percent increase from the $9.08 billion in revenue reported in the same quarter a year ago.

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Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans now believe there is a significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming, up seven points from early December just after the so-called “Climategate” scandal involving doctored or deliberately undisclosed scientific evidence first broke.

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With a surprise boost from Microsoft, the promise of rich typography on the Web just got a big step closer to reality.

The software company’s involvement emerged Monday with sponsorship of a newer effort at the World Wide Web Consortium to standardize Web-based fonts with technology called the Web Open Font Format (WOFF). It’s a fresh indicator of Microsoft’s serious engagement with new Web standards–and it’s a big boost for designers’ attempts to stretch the Web beyond just the few typefaces that today can be expected to be already installed on people’s computers.

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