At work one of the tools I've used recently is the GMT - Generic Mapping Tools. It is unbelievably cool! You can generate practically any map you can think of via this tool. I generated all kinds of maps with this, changing the colors, adding the state or country borders, altering the projection type. If you wanted to and you had an external data file relating population density to coordinates, you could generate a 3-D topographic map where height was related to population in a few command line statements. Incroyable! I truly love this thing. going to hunt some up, but I think instead I'll just steal them from the Slashdot topics page. Those already have the associations I want to the demographic that reads weblogs anyway.

And, to add to my dumbass day, I locked myself out of the house walking the dog. Wowza.