Bzzzt. White space good. I'm always happy when site designers keep their text columns in the 60-80 character range. It's called readability. Too bad more web jockeys don't bother to get at least a cursory background in typography. It would save me from my next spare-time mini project: writing a local style sheet for Opera to slim down all the overly wide text blankets I read.
NB: Ever read suck with a standards-compliant browser? Classic misuse of the <p> tag, and it kills all the italicized text that spans line breaks.