Behold the power of cheddar vision

April 17, 2007 10:40 PM

Watch cheese age. Cheddarvision.tv is apparently an internet phenomenon. It is the latest in a long line of spectacularly boring webcam sites, and is being hailed as the next Cambridge University coffee pot. Can't stand to wait in this Web 2.0 world? Become the cheddar's friend on myspace or watch the cheddar in timelapse [YouTube]. Be warned if you watch the video: "Highlights have included someone putting a sticker on the piece of cheese, and the sticker almost falling off," so brace yourself. What's your most boring of the web?
posted by blahblahblah (23 comments total)

That's so cheesy!

Sorry, someone had to say it.
posted by amyms at 10:47 PM on April 17, 2007

It has been like 12 years since that damn coffee pot became a meme. It was pretty much the first novelty webcam right?
posted by autodidact at 11:01 PM on April 17, 2007

This is no Wensleydale.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:01 PM on April 17, 2007

Paging Mirsky. David Mirsky to the white courtesy phone.
posted by dhartung at 11:08 PM on April 17, 2007

I keep asking for the Watch Paint Dry Channel, but my cable company won't carry it.
posted by Dizzy at 11:15 PM on April 17, 2007

Well, the dullest blog in the world has been around for a few years.
posted by Brittanie at 11:17 PM on April 17, 2007

[sniff] I miss Mirsky. The 'web just ain't the same without him.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:21 PM on April 17, 2007

Hell, for that matter, I miss Cruel before it became bukkake'd by its userbase. Curse you rcade!
posted by Ogre Lawless at 11:22 PM on April 17, 2007

Paint Drying Cam.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:24 PM on April 17, 2007

God Bless You, sir!
But I can't get the audio to work.
Please advise.
posted by Dizzy at 11:25 PM on April 17, 2007 [1 favorite]

There's also the End of the Internet.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:26 PM on April 17, 2007

Paint doesn't make a lot of noise while it's drying. You have to turn up the volume.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:27 PM on April 17, 2007

Shit-- I checked back here to get some help and I missed the best part.
Thanks for nothing.
posted by Dizzy at 11:30 PM on April 17, 2007

Boring Boring.
Boring, Oregon.
Server not found cam.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:35 PM on April 17, 2007

Watch Grass Grow cam. Also includes time lapse video of a day of grass growing.
posted by Jimbob at 11:41 PM on April 17, 2007

ZomboCom is the most anything and everything of the web.
posted by pruner at 12:05 AM on April 18, 2007

Whoa... I saw the time lapse of that cheese on youtube last week. I had no idea that there was a camera where you could watch it age in real time. That is... that is crazy. Yet somehow I cannot disapprove. You scuzzy old timers who have been on the interblagotubes before I knew how to type properly may have worn the novelty on this stuff thin by now, but I certainly find this fascinating.

I mean, it is cheese twenty-four seven.

Like some kind of commentary on human existence.
posted by Mister Cheese at 12:59 AM on April 18, 2007

Eponysterical.
posted by Malor at 2:44 AM on April 18, 2007

Not really much different than watching CNN for over 3 minutes. The same thing over and over and over and over....
posted by MarshallPoe at 5:15 AM on April 18, 2007

I miss the Spam Cam.
posted by billder at 6:32 AM on April 18, 2007

I bought the cheese! 6 varieties of handmade farmhouse cheese cheap and really not bad at all. Delivered in a week or so with Easter in between. So far the favourite is the Red Leicester. Good with beer, wine and old Scotch (not at the same time, obviously). Go for it!
posted by terrymiles at 9:21 AM on April 18, 2007

Things on the internet more boring than watching cheddar cheese age:

1. Another MeFi debate on whether New York City is still as cool as it was in the 70s/80s

2. Another MeFi debate on whether X band is teh suck or teh balls

3. Pictures of ANS's baby

4. Pictures of Suri Cruise on her 1st birthday
posted by spicynuts at 9:45 AM on April 18, 2007

Wow. What's old is new again. First it was the ungodly shitty "web design" and templates on myspace that were full of crap we tried to abolish in the late 90s, and now the silly webcams are back.

Next we'll see a big JenniCam revival. Heh.
posted by drstein at 12:07 PM on April 18, 2007