When Shia LaBeouf got into a car accident last year, the world stopped moving. The actor was rushed into surgery to repair a hand crushed so badly that one finger no longer had any bone left. The second thing out of everyone's mind was, "How will this affect the Transformers 2 movie?"

Shia was in the middle of filming the epic sequel to the insane original (that made squeal like the little geeky girl I am in the theatre) when his truck got smashed by a moron driver who ran a red. Fast forward a couple of months and where are we? Shia's hand will be undergoing a third surgery within days (if it hasn't already happened) that the actor says should restore about 80% of its normal function.

Scary stuff. Here's the full text of the EW interview with Shia LaBeouf. Some highlights:

How is the hand now?
My middle finger is still crooked as a f---ing noodle, so they've gotta straighten it out and put a screw in it.

What do you remember of the initial surgical procedure?
The first voice I heard when I came out of surgery was Harrison's. Harrison [Ford] called me on the phone and said, "Hey, are you okay?" I said, "Yeah, I'm good." He said, "Well, then you need to get back to work." I said, "Are you serious?" He said, "That's the way this cookie crumbles." So I went back to work. The show doesn't stop for anybody.

In October, there was a report that you got hit with a prop just above one eye and needed stitches.
I basically stuck a f---ing sharp object through my eyelid.

Michael Bay, your director, says it was a large prop of some kind that caught you, which he didn't want to identify or describe because it's a plot spoiler. He also says he dropped to his knees as soon as he heard someone on the set say, "There's blood."
They stitched me up in a military hospital. The doctor looks at me and he holds his thumb and forefinger about an inch apart from one another. I said, "What is that?" He said, "Blindness." This is the most insane s--- I've ever been a part of.

In other entertainment news...

Have you seen the YouTube clip of Britain's Got Talent competitor Susan Boyle? I caught it on the Evening News with Charles Gibson last night when I was picking up milk at my friendly neighborhood corner store, and I'm not exaggerating when I tell you that every person in the store had stopped to watch her performance. It's so good it looks fake.

The best part of the Britain's Got Talent story for me is that this isn't the first time something this unreal has happened: If you don't know Susan Boyle, certainly you've heard of Paul Potts. Here's the clip of his first audition -- it's eerily similar and equally amazing. Plot spoiler: He went on to win the talent show and release a record of his own. Seriously, he's the new Luciano Pavarotti ... only he's better. You don't have to be trained to appreciate talent when you see it.

And what would our Entertainment Report for Geeks be without a mention of Stephen Colbert?

A few weeks back, I asked all of you Firefly fanatics (welcome to the club) to go online to NASA.org and vote to name a node on the International Space Station 'Serenity' after the show's iconic spaceship.

Well, you listened -- but Colbert still rules the stage when asking fans for favors. He caught wind of the contest and 230,000 fans later, the name 'Colbert' was the leading write-in vote for the contest.

Last night, NASA went on 'The Colbert Report' to announce the winning entry of the Name a NASA Node contest (my own name, not theirs), and instead of announcing the lead vote getter -- SERENITY -- or write-in winner COLBERT as the winner, the chosen voicebox for NASA said the new node would be named TRANQUILITY -- another write-in vote.

I am totally irritated by this!

Why bother having a voting contest if you aren't going to pick the top-vote-getting entry in either the suggested or write-in categories? Grrrr ... I'm definitely more angry about this than I should be. It's just a stupid, bureaucratic PR bull---- to hold a public voting contest then just give the award to the entry you like best.

Seriously... see if I promote any more of those stupid voting polls from NASA again. Yeah, and congrats on your exercise machine, Colbert. That's an OK consolation prize.

See you all Friday!