Egypt rules

Benrik are pleased to announce that Hala from Cairo has most successfully completed the Day 7 task, "Send your passport in to Benrik for stamping". Others also sent in their valid passports, but none from a state with so little sense of humour about these matters. Bravo, and good luck.

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You are the 8,830,157th person to visit authors Benrik Limited's website, where anarchism runs rampant, subject to Benrik's clear guidelines of course.

If you are following "This Diary Will Change Your Life", record your efforts throughout the year in a blog. If you're here by mistake, welcome and good luck. If Benrik approve of you, you can play with the other children! To try and enter Benrikland, click here.

Benrik Bible out now! Rejoice!

It is with a mixture of joy and wistfulness that Benrik announce the launch of their new work, "This Book Will Change Your Life", which you may check out here.

It collates the 365 best tasks from the last six annual editions of "This Diary Will Change Your Life" in a beautifully redesigned format that will delight anyone with functioning eyesight. It also draws a line under the annual Diaries; Benrik can hardly urge permanent self-revolution but then persist with the same format themselves forever, can they now?

"This Book Will Change Your Life" is the apogee of the Diary experiment: it is the definitive record, with 365 classic daily tasks road-tested by over 400,000 pioneering readers, and ready for the rest of humanity (6,799,600,000 of them) to follow. New readers are urged to start it on Jan 1, together with any old hands who wish to go through it all again, perhaps even reversing some of the negative side-effects.

Note to our American readers: the very first Diary was also called "This Book Will Change Your Life" in the US. It is confusing, and we blame our American publishers entirely. That one had an orange cover, this one is white though. Both are worth owning, particularly with the exchange rate as it is.

Life-changing happening

The launch of Benrik's new book was accompanied by an exhibition in London very recently, in which authors and artists Benrik revived the "happening". Over one hundred participants submitted to on-the-spot speed-life-change, which included being caned by a dominatrix, given a quote for plastic surgery by a qualified doctor, blessed by a voodoo priest, chanted at by a Hare Krishna and tattooed by a tattoo artist. See the photos here, along with some media coverage. Highlight of the evening was Benrik reader Lavina having "Benrik" tattooed on her shoulder. Bless!

 

Benrik Stranger Cards...

...are finally available on Moo.com! Here:

Click here to see the full range, which no one who wishes to interact with complete strangers in a professional manner should be without. Have fun, although do remember that 1 in 1,000 complete strangers is likely to be a murderous psychopath.

Benrik Pitch

Experience Benrik's "Recession Blocker": a website that blacks out any mention of the credit crunch from your online news reading: www.recessionblocker.com; be sure to use it and pass it on to others. It is one of Benrik's pitches to the media world, published in the Guardian, which aim to improve the quality of brainwashing we are subject to.

Also in the spirit of the fightback against the global economic meltdown, Benrik have published A Book For People Who Want To Become Stinking Rich But Aren't Quite Sure How (Boxtree, £9.99), 150 cutting-edge and fully-illustrated business ideas, any one of which could make you rich enough not to care about any damn recession