While some companies (and locations) block access to certain websites, you can (possibly) easily get around said blocks via Google — by telling it to translate your target page from/to English, and essentially using them as a proxy server, e.g., using http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=www.forbiddensite.com to get to www.forbiddensite.com.
Of course, a visual review of URLs may spot this, and it won’t hide your IP address, and it would be relatively easy for Web Nanny software systems to block something like this — but it’s a rather clever hack nonetheless.
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Apparently, this is pretty well known, the Websense software that Rick’s work uses was being fooled by this, but now it is not.
I wonder if you could get around with similar hacks from other translation sites?
Possibly.. The one I normally use (babelfish.altavista.com) is reachable via this url for a english to english translation of this page if anyone wants to look and find out.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hill-kleerup.org%2fblog%2f2005%2f12%2f27%2fgoogle_proxy.html
Interestingly enough it really horks up the fonts when you do that.