As reported by the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and every other big news organizations, each with budgets and resources greater than the sum total of all bloggers, bloggers announced today that Google posted a street view of Pompeii.

For those of who are unfamiliar with Pompeii, it was a Roman town where wealthy Romans went to eat, drink, and get sucked off but anything with a mouth.  Sort of like San Francisco, but without book stores. The city was buried in hot ash and froze many of the residents in mid 69.

While there are no easily found statistics on the project or a convenient list of contributors, NeoKaw has discovered that the bulk of the project was completed by Pepper Tucker, a San Francisco native who was taking a break from his  tour of raves and discos in Rome. How did NeoKaw discover this? It was rather simple; we first looked at Google Maps and discovered the route covered by the Street View. With that information, we knew that the photographer was from San Francisco and had heard just enough about Pompeii that there could be some hot guys there. After that we opened up a phone book from San Francisco and picked a name at random.