Left aligned on big screens

A down-side to having a big screen 22" is that almost every website either looks like it wasn't designed properly, since it doesn't fill the screen,

Indian News site that has very good editorials

or needs your head tilted 5 degrees to the left since the content is over <-- there

"The frontpage of the internet is 5 degrees off center on my 22" screen

Hacker News is better than most sites though (3 degrees off center)

Maybe the menu could be placed on the left instead of on top like in Google plus

The earlier 2 column layout was bad

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