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Early drink driving graphic: “There is a definite relation between alcohol in the blood and degree of intoxication,” declares this graphic from this 1950s book. From a time when seven bottles of beer meant driving was mearly “questionable”.

Filth: The Guardian reports that American author Jonathan Littell was awarded the 2009 “Bad Sex in Fiction” award by Britain’s Literary Review, with prose like this from his novel The Kindly Ones:

“I [climaxed] suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg.” Later: A woman’s genitalia resembles “a Gorgon’s head … a motionless Cyclops whose single eye never blinks. If only I could still get hard, I thought, I could use my [organ] like a stake hardened in the fire, and blind this Polyphemus who made me Nobody. But my [organ] remained inert, I seemed turned to stone.”

Picture this: Beatles in 1957.

Video: The Ten Commandments: No 5 Thou Shalt Not Kill (an animation using vegetables).

Modern art: A British artist has recreated a series of bizarre last meals chosen by actual death row prisoners on the day before their execution. James Reynolds filled orange prison-issue trays with some of the most unusual items the murderers asked for – like a single black olive or an onion and two bottles of coke. Read more here.

Video: A blow-up doll, a bazooka and a middle aged skateboarder make up the worst movie scene ever.