Not guaranteed to work through all proxy servers, or with all file sizes. Some configuration required. The simple trick for turning dates into links is explained in the code. Treat the simple formatting as a starting point, and go wild. It's also overkill.
Feed babelize a large sample of someone's writing, and watch it turn their words into nonsense.
The current version has problems with long file paths. It would often be nice to turn images into colored blocks, and text into some non-descript gibberish, of the Lorem ipsum dolor sit amat variety. Or better yet, try it on a page of your choice . The current version reform doesn't work on frame-based pages, and has some problems with Javascript and Java. A revision is in the works.