How exciting to see that Edible Geography, BLDGBLOG's partner-site launched earlier this year by Nicola Twilley, has been named one of the Best Blogs of 2009 by Kevin Nguyen and The Bygone Bureau. Nguyen elaborates on his decision, writing that Edible Geography "talks about how global warming affects the quality of Czech pilsners, the EU's legal standards of beauty for produce, and the Subway sandwich shop being built atop a crane at the Freedom Tower construction site. She digs up the obscure and fascinating." Congratulations, Nicola!

Will Wiles's Spillway also gets a nicely deserved shout-out; as does Hilobrow, a consistently awesome and very wide-ranging collaborative effort by Matthew Battles and Josh Glenn. "13 Ways of Looking at Apollo" is a particular favorite post of mine.

Congrats, everybody! Read about the rest over at Bygone Bureau.

It would be wrong in every way, however, not to include mammoth on a list of the best blogs launched in 2009, and Diffusive Architectures by Carl Douglas is another 2009-born blog worthy of more attention. Veg.itecture also sprouted earlier this year.