Seriously, the newbies here will believe anything they see, especially with a title like that.

Thanks, I was inspired

I like the dead puppy one, although I dont get it

Now that's awesome. But from what I'm reading, the bug was actually in 0.7. Version 0.8 just made it apparent.

"Chain Fork Trims Pork: Price Sliced" -The Weekly Meat

I will just leave this here.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3tc188/

Most probably not, it's a bug. The problem is that 0.8 created blocks that SHOULD have been okay, but apparently were not accepted by 0.7 on account of a bug. It was 0.7 that did not behave according to specification (because of a bug). I could be wrong though but that's my understanding.

These headlines are funny. But the block chain fork isn't. There was a serious problem and if it wasn't for the heroic efforts of the developers, miners, and business owners (Blockchain.info, SatoshiDICE, mtgox, et. al.) working together to identify the problem and fix it as expediently as possible, Bitcoin could have taken on permanent damage.

The headlines? Yes, thank you   

"Blockchain Fork Borks Bitcoin Dorks" -Nerd World

"Mystery Miner Brings Price Chop With Attack Block, Dirty Deeds Do Coins Cheap" -Unidirectional Flow