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 (AAPL) 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]