last night at the american museum of natural history winter dance: trollsen twin trashley (try saying that 5 times fast) in the bathroom, sharing a cigarette with an unidentified french woman. wearing, obviously, about five dead animals and 6 inch heels. she's pretty.

Send sightings to stalker@gawker.com, tell us when and where you were blessed with the presence of the celeb, and we'll post them to the map.

Well, Lanier admits, in the past, "Internet idealists like [him]" felt that the whiny creatives demanding to be, like, paid for their digital contributions were going about things all wrong, as proved in a previous essay called "Piracy is Your Friend." Kind of like the old "the invisible hand of the market will eventually correct everything" theory.

But! "I was wrong. We were all wrong." Coulda told you that ten years ago, buddy.

"Idealism and hope are no longer enough... to help writers and artists earn a living online," he says, adding that "People happily pay for content in certain Internet ecosystems," citing the virtual marketplace of Second Life (he's also an adviser to its creator, Linden Lab).

This idea seems to be based on the "Radiohead method" which is that most people might sorta pay at least something if given the choice.

So can artists & creatives make money on-line after all? Is the honor system better than no system at all? In a word: Maybe!