Top ten most popular projects, by month

May

Exploring The Abandoned Hospital Complex On Ellis Island May 8 - 18 votes
Lexcavator May 9 - 16 votes
WAKING UP: the ebook and Minecraft map May 14 - 9 votes
Special Needs Parenting Blog May 17 - 8 votes
Saving Sasha May 14 - 8 votes
New York Was New York May 16 - 6 votes
A new website for an old cloth. May 15 - 6 votes
#SciFund 2: The Sci-Fundining May 3 - 6 votes
Strand Bookstore Labor Dispute Comics May 2 - 6 votes
94 Elements - Our lives through the lens of the elements May 1 - 6 votes

April

143 hours and four ink pens. Apr 25 - 50 votes
Zombies, Run! A running game and audio adventure for iOS Apr 6 - 44 votes
10 alternative Disney movie posters Apr 2 - 34 votes
End Piece: the last artwork of great artists Apr 16 - 21 votes
Pocket Tactics: Strategy game news and reviews for Android and iOS Apr 6 - 18 votes
Ghosts With Shit Jobs Apr 19 - 17 votes
Who Was David Algonquin? The Works Of The Mystery Man Of American Letters Apr 20 - 16 votes
Paleoart Apr 3 - 13 votes
Instarchive - Download a zip file of your Instagram photos Apr 13 - 12 votes
Grow a Face Apr 20 - 10 votes

March

Bean Plates - MetaFilter Over Thinking Food Mar 6 - 94 votes
The How Not To Kill Your Baby Official Growth Chart Of Doom Mar 28 - 37 votes
Tower of Babelfish - A Language Learning Method Mar 18 - 36 votes
With algorithms subtle and discrete, I seek iambic writings to retweet Mar 21 - 28 votes
Blocked on Weibo Mar 10 - 26 votes
Hunger Names Mar 9 - 26 votes
Make No Wonder (HTML5 game) Mar 26 - 23 votes
Photos By Nathan Mar 16 - 22 votes
Photo Timeline Generator Mar 22 - 19 votes
How long does it take to find the most important bit of information on your website? Mar 21 - 19 votes

February

Playfic, an experimental community for writing/playing interactive fiction Feb 15 - 24 votes
Before The Movie Begins Feb 2 - 23 votes
Drunk Eliza Feb 22 - 22 votes
Instrument-a-day Feb 8 - 19 votes
Planet Saturday Comics Feb 13 - 18 votes
Oscar Contest 2012 Feb 5 - 18 votes
You've Got Mail: letters at Houghton Library Feb 12 - 17 votes
Fake War Stories Feb 24 - 16 votes
The Linux Setup Feb 18 - 16 votes
Samsabot Feb 25 - 15 votes

January

Mapstalgia - video game maps drawn from memory Jan 10 - 55 votes
Syllabi -- prepared reading for curious readers Jan 23 - 30 votes
Cartophile collects beautiful maps Jan 24 - 29 votes
Commons Image Browser Jan 13 - 24 votes
A/The New American Haggadah Jan 28 - 17 votes
NPR Fresh Air Tumblr Jan 19 - 16 votes
Definitive Jest Jan 1 - 14 votes
Meme Pool Jan 21 - 10 votes
The Ultramod Guide to Hollywood Jan 10 - 10 votes
gifcollector.com Jan 18 - 9 votes

December

Chicago Lobbyists Dec 6 - 37 votes
TIME 2 TRAVEL: An Untourists guide to time Dec 5 - 30 votes
Film the Police! Dec 12 - 28 votes
Free Philosophy Courses Dec 8 - 19 votes
Sad Girls On ESPN Dec 8 - 17 votes
MetaQuilter Dec 11 - 15 votes
Hypnotizr, an online hypnosis service Dec 26 - 14 votes
Mockingbird -- a typewritten poem Dec 20 - 14 votes
the square foot Dec 5 - 14 votes
Jotunheim - A capture-once, post-wherever-you-feel-like-it app for iPhone Dec 1 - 13 votes

November

Figured out how to accomplish Cyril Takayama's head drop illusion. Nov 2 - 40 votes
Supercut.org Nov 7 - 34 votes
The BEWARE! t-shirt collection Nov 13 - 33 votes
ThinkUp Nov 16 - 31 votes
World War II in Photos Nov 1 - 24 votes
Metalinks: A Greasemonkey script to collect links from Metafilter comments Nov 23 - 23 votes
Jesus Markoving Christ Nov 4 - 21 votes
Chomper 5 - Version 2.0 of my Pac-Man in HTML5 project Nov 29 - 17 votes
Free Occupy Wall Street - WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER- poster Nov 3 - 15 votes
The Best Liner Notes. Nov 11 - 13 votes

October

Avería Oct 29 - 87 votes
Mefi Tartan Oct 5 - 34 votes
The Occupy Wall Street People's Library Oct 9 - 26 votes
Poor Babies: Some parents shouldn't be allowed to own cameras. Oct 25 - 24 votes
I am trading a set of chairs I made for anything. Oct 25 - 22 votes
#OWS Charts Oct 12 - 22 votes
How to Shoot a Wolf Oct 26 - 17 votes
The Brothers Grimm Lunch Break Oct 3 - 16 votes
"China Girls / Leader Ladies" Oct 6 - 14 votes
RPGWrite - an inspirational writing tool Oct 28 - 13 votes

September

FaveRunner: The Video Game Of Missing The Point Of Metafilter Sep 29 - 44 votes
Miss Gender — A Video Podcast About my Transition From One Gender to Another Sep 12 - 29 votes
Your Superfund Sep 29 - 26 votes
First World Gripes Sep 21 - 25 votes
He didn't kill a soul that he didn't proceed to revive. Sep 1 - 19 votes
You Are Not Dead: The Book, The Play, The Album, The Fridge Magnets Sep 6 - 14 votes
Don't Index Me! Sep 28 - 12 votes
How Facebook Homogenizes Identity Sep 25 - 12 votes
Roguelike Radio Sep 13 - 12 votes
Whoa, Canada! Sep 28 - 10 votes

August

Monsters of Grok: fake band shirts for history's greatest thinkers Aug 31 - 49 votes
Huxtable Hotness Aug 23 - 34 votes
Baby's First Single Serving Web Page: Deleted Post Filter Aug 4 - 28 votes
old-school unix talk for the web Aug 24 - 26 votes
Lloydtube: Lloyd Dobler's boombox meets youtube Aug 8 - 25 votes
Patrick Bateman’s New York: What Happened To The World of American Psycho Aug 1 - 25 votes
Scientific Side-Lights Aug 15 - 22 votes
The Code Challenge - a maths treasure hunt by the BBC Aug 11 - 20 votes
Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow Aug 23 - 18 votes
MST3kdbx: Six Degrees of Peter Graves. Aug 29 - 16 votes

July

iTerm2 - Mac OS Terminal Replacement Jul 7 - 53 votes
No Poster Girl. Life With Severe ME/CFS: A bed-lyin', pill-poppin', muscle-wastin' good time. Jul 7 - 39 votes
F & P Daguerreotype, The Cincinnati Panorama of 1848 Jul 16 - 32 votes
Which Fish? Jul 21 - 26 votes
The Carter Family Project Jul 13 - 24 votes
Five minutes into the future Jul 13 - 21 votes
Dementia be Damned Jul 19 - 20 votes
Tabletop - A modular, expandable music studio, designed exclusively for iPad Jul 27 - 17 votes
The Lisa McPherson Files Jul 13 - 15 votes
All My Shirts Jul 13 - 10 votes

June

Play SPENT: Can you make it through the month? Jun 22 - 50 votes
DOOM CAKES Jun 29 - 29 votes
Learn to play by ear online. Jun 23 - 21 votes
Cosmos - the short-term, long-term and everything in between timer Jun 21 - 16 votes
Classic Cold War arcade games that never were, "reproduced" in HTML5 Jun 21 - 16 votes
Unichar - a ranking system for Unicode characters Jun 21 - 10 votes
The Artless Bystander Jun 30 - 8 votes
Picture Chat Jun 26 - 6 votes
Super Bride and Groom - Retro Flash Platformer Jun 21 - 5 votes
Public Transport EP Jun 29 - 4 votes