While I think The Way of Kings would be a little too much for an 8-year old, Brandon Sanderson's Alcatraz books would be great for him.

Of course, he means as opposed to cultured bacteria that you purposely added to your beer:

http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/bacteria.html

They should have known that the only object with the thrust capable of such a feat is the Annihilatrix. Which was absolutely NOT made to push the Earth into the Sun.

Honestly, I focused on the TV part of MythTV because that's the part I use. I haven't used the Music plugin for quite some time, and I don't use MythVideo too much either. MythMusic wasn't very good when I last used it, I hope this new UI library will allow themers to make some better user interfaces for Mythmusic.