Great Firewall of China

This link comes by way of Abject Learning. Clicking on the picture above takes you to greatfirewallofchina.org a site that let's you check to see if any particular web site is blocked in China or not.

Evidently, my own writings constitute a threat to this global superpower. Cool. This also probably explains why my site meter hasn't clicked over past the one billion mark yet.

You can read more about China's efforts to restrict internet access and about the various circumvention technologies available in this also banned article from Wikipedia.