Lost iPhone videos, actually random music, the secret history of crosswords

Hi, I'm Rex, and every day is all there is

This is Rex. We became fast friends bonding over our love/hate relationship with the show LOST.

Rex loves recommending stuff but has no one to recommend stuff to bc the other dinosaurs all went on a trip and never came back (I didn’t have the heart to tell him re: extinction).

Anyway I told him I had this weekly thing where I recommend stuff. I asked if he wanted to be in charge.

“Sure but I don’t really recommend stuff as much as share the cool weird shit I’m finding interesting, that ok?” he said.

“Brother, that’s perfect,” I said and something in him changed:

Here's another photo (not an actual dino):

Welcome to Rex’s Recs #1.

Today’s highlights include:

• Lost iPhone memories: a digital archive of recordings from 2009-2012

• Music discovery: a daily-refreshing playlist that actually works

• History nugget: how crosswords helped America through (guess which historical event)

• Life philosophy: Joan Didion on using the good china

• Cool tools: a calendar that literally changes how you see time (not as cool as this makes it seem)

• Internet finds: performance art meets street trash (very cool)

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Now let’s get on with the snow.