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If you are sitting around with nothing, and I do mean nothing to do today, you may just be bored enough to watch some cheese ripen. A website showing nothing but a large block of English cheddar has garnered enough attention that over 1 million viewers have checked in to watch it slowly ripen. No, sadly, I'm not joking.

The cheddar, from West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers, has been in front of a webcam and displayed on cheddarvision.tv since December, and has apparently attracted viewers from more than 100 countries.

In case you missed it, there is now a You Tube time-lapse video, so you can catch up on the ripening process to date in under a minute. And if that weren't quite enough excitement for you, you can also suggest a name for the cheese, if you feel so inclined.

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If you had asked me 15 years ago what I thought the healthiest foods were, I probably would have said salad, pasta, bread, rice, and water. If you had asked me 35 years ago, I probably would have said Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Quisp cereal, pretzels, Pepsi, and Sara Lee pound cake.

We all know better now, of course (for example, Sara Lee pound cake should only be eaten 20 or so times a week), but do we really know what the healthiest foods are? We've talked a lot about healthy foods before, but never like what you'll see after the jump...in video form! The video isn't the best quality, and waiting 30 seconds for the next food to be listed is rather annoying, but the info is interesting. Besides, it's like a game. You can take those 30 seconds to place bets with your friends! What will be next in the video...apricots? Avocados? Broccoli? Read on...

Most sour candy seems to be marketed at kids and I'm willing to wager that at elementary schools around the country, perhaps around the world, kids still have contests to see who can out-sour their friends by eating extremely sour candies. I never went in for the sour candies because, to be honest, they don't usually taste very good. The overpowering sourness gives way to an almost burning sensation and you wonder if you are ever going to regain the use of your tastebuds even after you have spit the candy out. But they're fun to eat, right? Isn't that why people subject themselves to them in the first place? I have no idea, but I can say that the people eating the sour candies in the Sour Death Balls video, where they seem to be trying to keep the candies in their mouths as long as possible, above don't exactly look like they're enjoying every moment of the experience. For us viewers, on the other hand, the faces they make are pretty funny, though.

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Who misses the McDLT? Ah, for those long lost days of oversized styrofoam packaging. Fortunately, I can relieve the glory days with this fantastic Jason Alexander commercial.

Cruising YouTube is a good way to pass a few minutes (or hours) when you have nothing better to do or simply can't be bothered to get on with your work. You can discover all kinds of interesting video clips - such as commercials from the 1980s. Granted, the commercials were irritating when they first aired, but they have a certain amount of appeal now. It's hard to say whether it's the fact that most of them have jingles/music or that they're simply hilarious. Here are a few more favorites, all worth reliving:

Do Paul McCartney fans sit around chatting about how Paul should have his own cooking show? Someone must have told him that that is what people want to see, because Paul is shown here, starring in his own cooking clip, preparing mashed potatoes. He even seems to have a professional set and a crew.  Paul keeps reiterating that he has no idea what he's doing as he peels, boils and mashes the potatoes with lots of margarine and some milk. He also demonstrates his "technique" for chopping onions - which should not be used unless you want to risk chopping off your own fingers - that are added as a "special" ingredient.

Paul opens by asking "How exciting is this on the internet?"

The answer is not very, Paul. But you might actually do well if the Food Network runs another season of The Next Food Network Star.

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