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.
Can confirm for 1.8.2-pre1