read The Owl and the Pussycat Assassinate the EuroFeds by Edward "Deadbeef" Lear, the winner of metamute's literary contest in celebration of Jam Echelon Day (21 October). echelon is a super double dog secret surveillance system capable of intercepting our communication based on certain keywords. the idea was that intentionally flooding the internet with these keywords would confuse the machine that tracks them. see also non-winner Jaka Zeleznikar's entry, Poem for Echelon, because i like it.