• by Erin DeJesus , September 30, 2008

Just in case Miley Cyrus's toothy, Bratz-doll face doesn't already haunt your dreams, the Disney tween queen (aka Hannah Montana, if you're completely pop culture illiterate) is adding a new weapon to her Big Brother-like takeover of the world: the prospect of waking up with her.

To foster back-to-school spending, Disney and Wal-Mart - which shills licensed Hannah Montana merch, from leggings to butterfly-shaped wall clocks - teamed to create hannahmontanacalls.com, a Web site that somewhat inexplicably enables parents to send free, recorded wake-up calls from Hannah to their kids' cell phones. (In theory, hearing Cyrus squawk "Be a superstar and get your things together!" first thing in the morning will remind children of their ravenous need to run out and buy back-to-school notebooks.)

But unsurprisingly (really, how'd they not see this coming?), the site's also become popular with practical jokers. Pranksters can schedule anonymous crank calls as early as 5 a.m. (manipulate time zone options and any time of day will work), and though the Web site requires e-mail registration, the annoying messages give no hint as to the sender's identity. Pre-dawn, your groggy victim might mistake Miley's raspy voice (telling him or her, "It's time to wake up and get a move-on!" or "Don't forget you have orchestra club today!") as a sign of the coming apocalypse.