The webification of prime-time TV continues today with the debut of ABC/Disney shows on Hulu. That means you’ll be able to watch shows online from the ABC network, Disney Channel, ABC Family, SOAPnet and others. The first major ABC show, Grey’s Anatomy, starts today on Hulu. Other major shows coming soon include Desperate Housewives, Scrubs, Ugly Betty and The Superstars. NBC Universal and Fox already feature their shows on Hulu. You can keep up with the latest from Hulu through its Twitter feed – or you can watch for those commercials featuring Alec Baldwin as a devious alien.

Speaking of turning your brain to mush …

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The Minneapolis folks behind Yearbook Yourself are at it again, this time on Facebook. The new app, Wild It Up, allows Facebook users to “wild up” their Facebook photos by adding realistic-looking elements such as fashion accessories, animals and tattoos. See the accompanying photo of yours truly.  (And please accept my apologies for the accompanying photo of yours truly.)

Wild It Up was created by Colle+McVoy for Caribou Coffee. That’s why there’s a bunch of Caribou drinks and snacks to add to your photos, too. The app seamlessly integrates with your Facebook photo galleries to make the process easy. As with other Facebook apps, you can share the often-funny results of your wild-upped photos in your updates, as well as add them to your profile. Print out your photo as a coupon and take it to a Caribou store, and you’ll get a free Wild Cooler drink (for a limited time). See that? It pays to make fun of yourself.

By the way, Colle+McVoy celebrated its recent Webby award for Yearbook Yourself this week with a rooftop party at its downtown office. The new edition of Yearbook Yourself is supposed to be up by the end of this month, in time for back-to-school promotions. Until then, you can go wild on Facebook.

If you missed the Webby Awards (which is, like, everyone), you can check out Monday night’s ceremony through a slick YouTube Channel. It collects all of the acceptance speeches as well as behind-the-scene shenanigans.

 The best part about the speeches? They were only five words long, which means their videos are barely 15 seconds long. With two prizes in more than 100 categories, that’s a very good thing.

Some speech highlights, sent over by the Webby folks (fortunately, because I don’t have the time to watch the 200+ videos):

“Thank God Conan got promoted.” — Jimmy Fallon, Webby Person of the Year

“Wait, we didn’t charge anything?” – Trent Reznor, Webby Artist of the Year (including releasing his 2008 album for free download online)

“Creativity is a renewable resource.” – Biz Stone of Twitter (Webby Breakout of the Year)

 ”What is this for again?” – Seth MacFarlane (Webby Film & Video Person of the Year)

“I didn’t kill newspapers, okay?” – Arianna Huffington (Best Political Blog)

“Victoria’s Secret: sexy lingerie. Yeah.” – Victoria’s Secret models Doutzen Kroes and Alessandra Ambrosio (Best Fashion Site)

“Fashion.” Heh.

How could you not love a game called Plants vs. Zombies? The new computer game is another fantastic time-waster from PopCap, the folks behind Peggle, Bejeweled and other popular casual games.

In the family-friendly Plants vs. Zombies, you face a horde of cartoon zombies lurching their way across your lawn. All you have to fend them off are some plucky plants with perplexing powers. You plant them on the lawn as your line of defense. Sunflowers create the solar energy needed to power other plants. Pea shooters fire peas at the undead. Cherry bombs take several zombies out at once. Wall-nuts [cq] provide a hard-shell barrier. And my favorite, potato mines, lie in wait until a zombie steps on them and is blown up with a big “SPUDOW!!” There are a few dozen other plants. And then there are all kinds of zombies, including the track-suit-wearing pole-vaulter. And the game play mixes things up occasionally, such as a bowling level in which you roll Wall-nuts to strike the zombies.

As zombies attack in increasing numbers — “Braaains!” — you must continually harvest sun power, place new plants as they become available, dig up plants that aren’t working and do more to zap the zombies. It’s wildly addictive and loads of fun. What’s really fetching is that a fair amount of strategy is involved, because the plants you choose to use and where you place them play a big role in fending off the horde. It’s quite a game — bizarre in concept, brilliant in design.

PopCap sells Plants vs. Zombies for $20 for PCs and Macs, but sites such as Steam have it for $10. A fully playable demo is available for free, but that trial version expires after an hour. You’ll want to play longer.

Oops, almost forgot to add that another freebie related to the game is getting some attention. The Zombatar (click on “Zombatar” on the menu of the game’s website) lets you create your own zombie avatar to use on Facebook or wherever. Here’s mine:

Looks just like me. Braaains!

I don’t have the stamina to keep up with Twitter, but I try — occasionally. Like many online services, you get out of Twitter what you put into it. And if you post nothing but mindless blather about “what are you doing now?” you’ll get the same in return. That point is driven home in College Humor’s original video “Real Life Twitter.” I found it to be hilarious — especially the reactions of innocent bystanders.

[Editing to add:]
Good friend and former Stribber Eric Hanson sends this reminder of a similar take on what Facebook would be like in the real world:

Yearbook Yourself was the only one among four Minnesota-connected websites to win a Webby Award, it was announced this morning. The fun site, which allows users to upload their pictures and see themselves in school yearbooks through the decades, won the People’s Voice Award for best viral marketing. That award is selected by popular vote. The judge-picked Webby Award for that category went to Diesel XXX SFW. Yearbook Yourself was created by Minneapolis-based Colle+McVoy.

Here are the other Minnesota-connected nominees and who won in their categories:

Our Message of Hope — created by Minneapolis-based Brew, Sevnthsin and others — lost in the video mashup/remix category to Bill O’Reilly’s Producer — The Unseen Footage! (Webby and People’s Voice).

Yo Gabba Gabba! — created by Minneapolis-based PUNY — lost in the exclamation-filled celebrity/fan category to Yahoo! OMG! (Webby) and E! Online (People’s Voice), and in the television category to Flight of the Conchords Lip Dub (Webby and People’s Voice).

Pizza Luce — created by Minneapolis-based Pizza Luce — lost in the restaurant category to Parish Food and Goods (Webby) and Smokey Bones (People’s Voice). (I knew the latter would get the popular vote. It’s eye-candy city.)

The winners will be honored June 8 at a ceremony in New York City. With two winners in more than 100 categories, plus special-recognition awards, that is going to be one long ceremony. A YouTube channel will be set up on June 9 to show highlights from the event.