Anyway, some of you must be reading some tiny text with modern TFTs with super natural res, or you've boosted up the font size. Problem is lots of web pages look screwed up with a different font size don't you think?
I now run at 1280x1024 on a 19" non-widescreen LCD, but had to spend about an hour tweaking all the various font, window element sizes, icon sizes and gamma corrections for things to be properly visible. Without those tweaks I still won't go over 1024x768.
I run my screen a tad darker than 'normal' because on the default settings the white window backgrounds come across too bright and strain my eyes.
Back on my 17" CRT I used to run my desktop at 912 x x 684 (halfway inbetween 800x600 and 1024x768) because 1024x768 was to much eyestrain.