End-of-week link round-up

I'm taking a quick trip to New York this weekend so The Daily Parker may be a little quiet. Here's what I'll be reading about on the flights:

• Microsoft has added Application Insights to Azure websites.
• Krugman is smacking his forehead about Switzerland's abandonment of the euro peg.
• The Times' Joshua Davis thinks we're wasting our tech talent.
• Via Sullivan, a video map showing how Europeans took over the North American continent.

One more bug to fix before I can do a test deployment...