In response to
wildswan's comment:
It's also totally fickle, often arbitrary-seeming, and totally frustrating!
In response to
wildswan's comment:
That's so. . . stupid. Wordle is a program the you can enter blocks of text into and it creates "word clouds." Ican' believe something so utterly innocuous is blocked.
I present a short sampling of other utterly innocuous blocked websites:
cutethingsfallingasleep.org
thisiswhyyourefat.com
wordle.net
youtube (ok, potentially not innocuous, but damnit I just want to be able to watch Eddy Grant whenever I damned well feel like it!)
vox.com (blog hosting site. Why block vox when you allow blogger?)
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fivethirtyeight
failblog
I can still access sg and fleshbot without a proxy. What the heck, Great Firewall? What's wrong with cute things falling asleep and beautiful word clouds?
If you're at all interested in accessing the interwebz through china-filtered glasses feel free to check out
the firefox China Channel add-on:
The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.
It's also totally fickle, often arbitrary-seeming, and totally frustrating!
MrCrisp