The 1980s invented awesome

via BuzzFeed. This is why I'm glad that I grew up in the '80s (or at least with it in my periphery). You poor unfortunate souls that only had the '90s will never have something this awesome. What would you have? Someone making a medley video of the "Macarena," Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy," and TLC's "Waterfalls?" No thanks.

Now, here's how they one-up themselves: Do a medley video of '80s videogame tunes. Mega Man and Castlevania? Hell yes. Perhaps it's a bit more hashed-out (what with thousands of videos of people playing the Super Mario Bros. theme already), but I think that it could still be very cool.

Also check out this interesting mash-up of the Beatles, the Kinks, and LCD Soundsystem. It's certainly not 1980s related, but I think it's worth a listen.

On another note, does anyone know how to get sexy looking high quality YouTube embed code like BuzzFeed uses versus the ugly, plain versions that YouTube gives you by default? I know there's a hack to add "&ap=%2526fmt%3D18" to the end of the video URL, but that doesn't quite cut it. Does anyone know the window dimensions that BuzzFeed uses? Also, why isn't YouTube smart enough now to know when you're embedding 4x3 or 16x9 video?