Well, maybe you don't. But to continue my analogy - Stumble Upon is like that.
For work-related reasons today I finally got round to checking this out. After signing up you download a toolbar, select a group of interests, and start Stumbling. Every time you hit the Stumble Upon icon, it serves you up a fresh website that's been tagged with the interests you selected. You give the site a thumbs up or thumbs down, and the service starts to learn your likes and dislikes.
I put 'art' and 'painting' as two interest, and my god, have I seen some scary stuff, interspersed with some gems. Like this gallery of hand art:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjRBbMoePxZ3AOlnr2_OSQppPSG2sfFysU2knKf7OJZRQfCzx2Jx37ae6eQwe5t6r1HSspE4xCMjlhfz68m_tEHIv0e21-tyXJyQxH13Uhzo_Dd0mrx-rmYAiEEbM2vwDv0o-mU_Pj1g/s400/0hand1.jpg)
This gallery of street installations:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjASkn3MdbWapwdTzMdQscg8yB8KKijNXwC5P62N2_0ymlmxJla4mBgxFDCfDvWOCYpZQarzgAaxF_SBstmdt6L0dZGrNGHciKw0CRtK-KHXN9FRP4Z6DEGiyUfqEeOBfLUcYBRebYX1OQ/s400/wall+head.jpg)
And this post on Ron Mueck, which mixes in images from the Brooklyn Museum's Flickr set, which I talked about the other day, with snaps of people looking at the work:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Z4EGLngzNtDCxnFw8LEaTRNSYJAsHuXtDPXLeLbPLj4yMM4BhX_QdTY0twMslbsDaMgXz8821fKlF86XcuT6CUOq1_WwRrc8gorf5mEqX2FqrvgYEEtuX9scoQtonKZhK6nqMBqIFjU/s400/inbed.jpg)
It interests me that in a world where it's hard to get people to vote in an election, people go out of their way to find ways to vote and favourite online.
UPDATE
Post-It note art:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKfe4uCpEylcPKzOAltsvcc23hymnN3fWatuTj8v57hQMEDTUa5QQH-yJa5g_5Loq6odZJDEVzCiTbPtyQg5Gta65pbXSbJ02I_R8qLiDyiNvB43gLoDm243Jgml9BE2kfi_5eT_WzSY/s400/elvis_post-it.jpg)
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