The Agenda

“West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers are so proud of the year it takes for their perfect-tasting cheddar to reach maturity that they have put a single cheese on a round-the-clock webcam for the whole world to see.” You can even download a screensaver (apparently Windows-only) to show you streaming, up to the minute cheese video without loading the website.

The cheese also has a page and Forty-one percent more interesting than cheese. 522 friends (as of this writing) on MySpace. The Agenda has 742 friends, making us about 41% cooler and more interesting than a block of cheese, plus none of our (commenting) friends seem quite as creepy as Idris.

“It is generally agreed that we are more bored today than ever before,” writes Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian, which probably explains why you’re reading this, and definitely explains why I’m writing it. Summarizing an assortment of boring past and present webcams, Burkeman points out that “the sites that consistently achieve cult status” are typically as much fun as watching paint dry, which makes me wonder, frankly, why we bother.