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“This howl was like that of a wounded, evil monster… When I looked outside at the pool, I saw the winds reaching into it like an invisible hand and shooting out water with such a force dozens of feet into the sky.”

A young Bill O’Reilly losing it on camera.

“It’s easy to laugh at nonsense on Twitter… ‘my nose is leaking,’ writes someone called Zapples…But I’ve heard lots of similar drivel (and even produced some myself) on the phone—an important technology if there ever was one.”

Guardian.co.uk head of editorial development, Neil Mcintosh, says the site is considering an Amazon-style feature which tracks the history of individual readers and suggests articles they might like.