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:

This gallery of street installations:

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:

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:

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