Patrik is a script-writing machine! Thanks to his work (and many other people), we now have 307 NSE scripts. They are all documented here:

http://nmap.org/nsedoc/

Also, we released a new version of Nmap today with 51 new scripts and many other improvements:

5.61TEST4 Release Notes: http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q1/23

Download Page: http://nmap.org/download.html

haven't used any of these -- but if you scan a couple class B's of popular hosting providers like aws, rackspace, etc. -- you'd be surprised at the % of things like memcached/redisd/hbase/etc.. that don't even have the most basic auth -- and people store all sorts of craziness in there

it's 2012 and everyone still cares not at all about security