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Christian Rudder is an American musician, actor, and entrepreneur. From 1999-2002, he wrote humorous diary-like articles for the website, TheSpark.com. His projects included the Stinky Feet Project, the Date-My-Sister Project, & the Fat Project, in addition to a host of shorter pieces.

Christian's antics in the "projects" ranged from giving himself Athlete's Foot, to setting up his friends to date his sister, Melissa, to documenting two relatively fit people's plight to gain thirty pounds in thirty days.

It has been widely speculated by fans that Christian sold TheSpark.com to Barnes and Noble for a large amount of money which he then used to start a new website, OkCupid.com. In fact, the founders of TheSpark.com, Sam Yagan, Chris Coyne, and Max Krohn initially sold TheSpark.com to web property iTurf. When iTurf failed to take hold on the internet, TheSpark.com was sold to Barnes & Noble for a relatively small sum of money. OkCupid.com is a dating website that has its roots in the popular tests featured on TheSpark.com.

Christian also plays guitar for indie band Bishop Allen, and starred in Andrew Bujalski's 2002 film, Funny Ha Ha.

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-'''Christian Rudder''' is an [[United States|American]] [[musician]], [[actor]], and [[entrepreneur]]. He was hired by the popular humor website, [[The Spark (website)|TheSpark.com]], to write humorous articles and contribute general content to the site.  Along with Chris Coyne, a co-founder of of the site, Christian helped shape the content and direction of the site.  Projects on which Chris and Christian collaborated include:
+'''Christian Rudder''' is an [[United States|American]] [[musician]], [[actor]], and [[entrepreneur]]. From 1999-2002, he wrote humorous diary-like articles for the website, [[The Spark (website)|TheSpark.com]]. His projects included the Stinky Feet Project, the Date-My-Sister Project, & the Fat Project, in addition to a host of shorter pieces.
+<p>Christian's antics in the "projects" ranged from giving himself Athlete's Foot, to setting up his friends to date his sister, Melissa, to documenting two relatively fit people's plight to gain thirty pounds in thirty days.
-'''Projects'''
-<p>Stinky Meat Project
-<p>Stinky Meat Project 2
-<p>Stinky Feet Project
-<p>Date my Sister Project
-<p>The Fat Project
-<p>
+<p>It has been widely speculated by fans that Christian sold TheSpark.com to Barnes and Noble for a large amount of money which he then used to start a new website, OkCupid.com.  In fact, the founders of TheSpark.com, Sam Yagan, Chris Coyne, and Max Krohn initially sold TheSpark.com to web property iTurf.  When iTurf failed to take hold on the internet, TheSpark.com was sold to Barnes & Noble for a relatively small sum of money.  OkCupid.com is a dating website that has its roots in the popular tests featured on TheSpark.com.
-'''Tests'''
-<p>The Bitch Test
-<p>The Slut Test
-<p>The Intelligence Test
-<p>The Death Test
-<p>The Purity Test
-<p>Christian's antics in these "projects" ranged from giving himself Athlete's Foot, to setting up his friends to date his sister while he spied (and then posted the video and blog updates on TheSpark.com), to documenting two relatively fit people's plight to gain thirty pounds in thirty days.
-<p>It has been widely speculated by fans that Christian sold TheSpark.com to Barnes and Noble for a large amount of money which he then used to start a new website, OKCupid.com.  In fact, the co-founders of TheSpark.com, Sam Yagan, Chris Coyne, and Max Krohn, along with Justin Kestler (initial head of SparkNotes.com, the study guide website), initially sold TheSpark.com to web property iTurf.  When iTurf failed to take hold on the internet, TheSpark.com was sold to Barnes & Noble for a relatively small sum of money.  OKCupid.com is a dating website that has its roots in the popular tests featured on TheSpark.com.  These tests were usually a collaboration of Chris and Christian, although it's likely that Chris Coyne is the driving force currently behind OKCupid.com.
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