http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~mein/blender/plugins/texture/pattern/index.html
Let me know if you have any suggestions 
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Pretty nifty 
After some quick testing I found out that:
a) very nice touch having the intensity | color | bump switcher-thingy
b) the bump doesn’t work as I had wished
c) it might be VERY useful for messing up specularity and stuff like that, and with ultra-low turbulence settings it gives a nice almost-regular-but-not-quite surface pattern.
All in all, I’d give it a score of 3,5 (with a maximum of 5)
Nice job, dewd!
BTW, nice to see another “newbie” around 