Tech talent from Sesame Street. (Photo: flickr.com/libertygrace0)

This crisp weather says it's fall, which means it's time for another round of the NYC Tech Talent Draft. [Wall Street Journal]

Third-party image hosts like Twitpic and yfrog are reportedly the next services to get the ax from Twitter. [BuzzFeed]

Your favorite educational puppet show was once a startup, and its founders were told the concept would never work. And yet here we are, an entire generation taught to count by the Count. [New York Daily News]

Some master thief drove his BMW into an Apple store and started stealing, only to find his getaway impeded by flat tires. [ABC News]

Marissa Mayer is giving everyone at Yahoo an electronic leash smartphone. [Business Insider]

Meet your iPhone 5 early birds: "Hazem Sayed, 54, and his marketing manager Sage (short for Sagittarius), 31, set up camp Thursday at 8 a.m. -- eight days early -- to promote a social media startup called Vibe." [Fortune]

Here's a little blast from the past, in the form of Bill Gates introducing Microsoft Excel, circa 1987. [History]

"CORNELL STUDENTS, WE WANT YOU! ...TO WORK AT NYC START-UPS," the school cheers on its Google+ page. The talk, organized by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, features the founders speaking "candidly" about their entrepreneurial experiences and describing a day in the life of their startups. Making nice with the neighbors before you've even moved in, sounds like someone's angling for extra credit.