horizontal scrolling or stupid MySpace UI tricks

Why does MySpace.com now require horizontal scrolling? Did they start designing their pages for 1280px widths? As you can see below, a good 70% of what I can see is either ad or useless space. Until I get a widescreen LCD, I’m on 1024×768 like most Internet users. This is probably just a temporary goof up, but it’s indicative of MS’ general sloppiness.Also, MySpace released a new profile editor feature which is swell. But it boggles my mind that they wouldn’t have put any effort into creating a nice design in the before and after scenarios, see below:What the heck is up with the retro blue look? And tiled picture wallpaper went out with flying toasters and windows 3.1. WTF! Couldn’t they even have tried to appear like they gave a crap? So this is what profiles are supposed to aspire to look like?Just sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Clearly more work went into the Die Hard promotional elements than anything on the site. Regardless of MS’ growth stats, I’m convinced that MS is primed for the taking. And not even by facebook, but by some other “up and comer.”