A collection of photos and avatars snagged from a couple of now-gone message boards which drew together an unlikely group of people. This slideshow is for them, but the song stands on its own merits, one of Roy's best, from the 1970 album "Flat Baroque and Berserk".
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Well, in 2006 there was a live webcam stream from an eagles nest at Hornby Island in Canada, hosted by a company called Infotec. It was a worldwide phenomenon. There was a linked discussion board, and lots of people from all over posted there. The eggs failed to hatch that year but the board continued, and then Infotec became Wavelit and it still continued. The people were an unusual group for a message board, with little in common but the original eagles nest. They became a very dysfunctional family, with much squabbling and acrimony, though it was never dull. Eventually the Wavelit site closed and the members dispersed in cliques to other boards. There was a fin-de-siecle mood in the last week, when I put this montage together. It was kind of sad.
The first photo is Ed Clunn who owned Infotec/Wavelit, and the last one is his son Trevor, who ran the boards. In between are various of the regular contributors.
The eagles nest is still streamed here -
http://www.hancockwildlifechannel.org/staticpages/index.php/20080401010059972
and there is a link to the Hancock discussion board where a number of the people in the montage still sometimes hang out. As I write this in April 2009, there are two eggs waiting to hatch.
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