Can confirm for 1.8.2-pre1
It seems to be fix in 1.8.1.
Can a mod close this it turns out it was a video card issue that got fix when I update the driver.
See this page: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Fence on how to craft a fence as it was change in 1.8 because of the new fence types.
That's odd because every other game I played in fullscreen works fine when Alt-TABbing out.
Added crash report.
Yes I do want the ticket back, also confirm for 1.8.
Try deleting the options file and then try opening a world.
I was playing hardcore on a new world in 14w26c and fell to my death.
You might be doing it wrong because I tried this /give @a written_book 1 0 {pages:["{\"text\":\"\",\"extra\":[{\"text\":\"Hello World\",\"color\":\"blue\"}]}"],title:Book,author:TellrawGenerator} and that work but then I did use this site http://ezekielelin.com/tellraw/#addExtraModalData I also did try the same coomand you did and got the same thing so I think you might be doing something wrong.
So that's why when I spawned a zombie with a stone block for the helmet part it was so big, and to think I did something wrong with the NBT tags. So it seems to happen for all blocks.
The lava part was already reported but I didn't know about the wrong textures part.
Oddly it seems to work with the beta Launcher 1.6.5 sort of. Clicking Respawn deletes the world but clicking back to title screen locks up the game. Will do more testing later.