A large round of cheddar, ripening in England, “has not been impeded in its rise to fame by the modest nature of its accomplishments. As the star of Cheddar-vision TV, a Web site that carries live images of its life on a shelf (www.cheddarvision.tv), the cheese has been viewed so far more than 900,000 times. … Compared with the cheese-cam, the old Yule Log on television was a roiling hotbed of nonstop commotion.”