Bigthisle comments on how to use Google’s translation service as a free proxy: Google free proxy!
Another method is to use Google’s mobile phone gateway and compressor. The page format is lost, but the content maintained:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=www.oreilly.com
(insert your own URL after the u parameter)
See Bigthisles’ post on Google Mobile:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/4807