Posted by Vincent / February 19, 2010, 6:29 pm
Today, and for the last few days in fact, Tim, our wayward designer, who parts these shores today to embark on a burgeoning music career, and for which we all wish him well (I digress), has taken MUCH delight in rick-rolling his soon to be EX work mates. Needless to say we were having none of this and decided to throw all our technical muster at the problem. As the saying goes: “fight fire with fire!”
To this end we basically hijacked his computer’s host file, and set up various popular domains and redirected them to a computer internally, so that we could then redirect his browser out to our new favourite YouTube page. When he discovered his own site site, may have been “hacked”, his face was aghast, much to our amusement; and he was even more bemused when it seemed like his computer was getting “the special treatment”.
So here’s how we did it, for those interested in getting one over their fellow work chums:
- Start Web Sharing in your “Sharing” system preference on your Mac.
- Pop an index.php file with a header location redirect in it, as follows:
<?php
header('Location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0');
die();
- You should then be able to test this in your browser locally.
- On the remote suspect’s computer, open Terminal and run the command “sudo pico /etc/hosts”
- When prompted for the password, enter your admin password.
- In pico, scroll to the bottom of the page, and paste in the following, where youtube.com is the domain you wish to target and 192.168.10.11 is the IP of your computer:
www.youtube.com 192.168.10.11
- Click “CTRL + X” and then “Y” and then “ENTER”
- Your victim should now be ripe for the picking!
Good Luck and enjoy the fun!
PS. Thanks Tim for your great teamsmanship over the last year and a half, and you will be missed! Am sure the other members of Stink Digital and all the peeps who have had the pleasure of working with you will not mind joining me in wishing you every best.
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Posted by Marcel / , 9:54 am
In all the rush of the beginning of the year (and it’s been a busy one, with lots of pitches, lots of jobs, lots of thefts and lots of hiring), we’ve been blog posting criminally badly. We’re very sorry.
However, in some big news, we have a new Art Director to tell you about: Kris Saliba — here he is
Our new Art Director Kris caught unprepared this morning
We’re really excited to have him on board — not only because his Interactive Design skills are so hot (they are) but because having an AD is sure to change the way we work, and bring a whole new viewpoint to our projects.
Welcome Kris!
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Posted by Jess / November 9, 2009, 5:23 pm
This little guy has taken to turning up at our window, climbing through and having a nose about in our office. We haven’t got a name for him yet. (Hint hint.)
Looking a little bewildered by the flash
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Posted by Vincent / November 3, 2009, 12:16 pm
Thanks to our super dandy pals at Hyper, with whom we worked closely on the latest Cadbury Nibbles online web pop-up boutique and facebook extravaganza, we are now scoffing down some beautiful Bea’s cupcakes with our midday tea.
Check them out before they are ALL GONE!
Posted by Marcel / October 5, 2009, 3:41 pm
Adam McNichol, our newest team member!
Today is Adam’s first day here in Stinky Towers, which is great news for everyone — it means we’ve all got a bit more time to spend on the things we do best, and he can bring the wealth of experience he gained as Senior Producer at Preloaded (and before) across to our all-star team.
He joins us as an Interactive Producer; book a job and you’re bound to meet him.
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Posted by Jess / August 7, 2009, 5:28 pm
As Studio Manager here at Stink Digital, it’s my job to notice things like messy offices… and when you work with only guys, it can get pretty bad! I’ve been nagging for weeks now for people to clean up after themselves around the place… this isn’t due to me being a neat-freak, but more because of the family of mice that live in the building.
When I brought it up in the weekly meeting yesterday, Mark had the idea of introducing a “naming and shaming” scheme. The premise is simple: clean up after yourself, or you have to wear The Hat of Shame.
Said Hat is a funny looking colourful piece of apparel that someone apparently brought us back from China. It looks like the plastic thing that melons come in. The joys of getting to wear The Hat of Shame include hat hair, itchy ears, and strange looks from passers-by… one of the sub-rules is that if you are caught leaving dirty dishes lying around, and you have to wear The Hat of Shame, then you have to wear it everywhere. And we do mean everywhere. That includes cigarette and lunch breaks, and even meetings.
Despite the big sign that went up in the kitchen, and the email I sent around explaining the rules, not even an hour after this scheme was decided we had our first defaulter! Tim went off home for the day, leaving his used coffee mug on his desk. Naughty naughty! So today he had to attend a meeting here in the office (thankfully the agency guys had a sense of humour!) and go out for lunch at Spitalfields wearing The Hat of Shame! Although, much to Marcel, Mark and my surprise, he didn’t get that many odd looks in the street… I think it must suit you, Tim!
The mug is discovered... and what's that? A glass too!
Tim's sad face is used as a warning for all future defaulters
Even the mouse thinks it's funny
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Posted by Mark / July 6, 2009, 3:41 pm
Stink Digital is located in East London’s lovely Printing House Yard, right above, as fate would have it, the advertising agency Sell! Sell!.
We’re so close, in fact, that my office window opens out above their skylight:
Despite all this, though, we’ve never actually met. So earlier today we got bored and decided to make our introduction by attempting to chuck a paper airplane made out of a business card into their premises.
Our aim, as it turns out, is almost as terrible as our photographic ability:
Five minutes after that photo was taken, a torrential downpour soaked one of the business cards and a gust of wind blew it over the window and into the office. Which means someone at Sell! Sell! has been presumably been confronted with what is effectively a spitball in the vague form of our business card.
So, to Sell! Sell!: We’re sorry. We are idiots, and we live above you.
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Posted by Marcel / June 29, 2009, 3:16 pm
When we found out that we’d won the Film Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Advertisers Festival – and in our first year operating as a fully fledged digital production company – we were obviously over the moon.
Philips’ Carousel won a Silver Cyber Lion, a Gold Film Lion and the Film Grand Prix at the awards; we were so excited at the prospect of winning what is arguably the biggest award in adland that we all flew over to watch the show and join in the party. Here’s a few photos of our weekend….
We're not made of money...
Just visiting...
Getting ready
Presenting the project at the show
Collecting the Grand Prix
Walking back to the apartment on Sunday morning
We can’t wait to go back next year and do it all again!
Posted by Vincent / April 21, 2009, 5:38 pm
Whilst Mark is away on annual leave, sunning himself on the beach in St Lucia (lucky sod) I thought I would boost morale at our great leader’s absence with a little Shoreditch-style loving. Fresh out of the oven from Apostrophe on Great Eastern Street:
First come first served!
Posted by Mark / March 31, 2009, 10:32 am
Mousey
This morning we found this little guy running around our office. After a chase under the desks, I managed to retrieve it with a DVD bundle case. Not wanting to be cruel, I decided to take it down the stairs and let it run free, and that’s when it all went wrong. 30 seconds into its freedom, the little one (baptised Mousey) went into the first hole it could find — the gutter drain. I could see his little body trying to swim back in vain, so I put my hand in the mucky water and found his tail to bring it back to safety, Mousey was going mad, slowly trying to walk and falling over on it’s back. Not knowing mouth to mouse first aid, I helped him get upright and left him still breathing in a safe place. Sadly it wasn’t to be and when I came back Mousey was dead. He’s now buried in a shallow grave in a flower pot.
A sad story that makes you realise you should be happy to be eating your cheese tonight.
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