It was yesterday actually. On Sunday, the BBC website reports, 67 glorified postboxes gathered at the Museum of Science and Industry - currently home to the biggest ever Dr Who exhibition.

This meeting of loveable geeks in home-made Dalek suits was arranged to set a world record for ‘the biggest number of people dressed up as daleks in one location’. Strange, I thought, that such a record didn’t already exist…

Anyway, there’s a Flickr photo set of the occasion and a YouTube video of this ‘proper Dalekfest’, as one commenter calls it. Check out the related videos if you’re after 25 minutes of non-stop Dalek footage.

Thanks to MoSI worker Unpopular Superhero and super-blog BoingBoing for the tips.

Unless you walk around Manchester with your eyes fixed firmly on the floor - or sky - you’ll probably have noticed a series of plain white posters, each containing a poem and little else.

It’s all the work of one Norris Necante, who I’m led to believe is Stretford-based poet Mike Fitzgerald. He’s part of York Road Chorlton, a collective of three artists and creative types who are looking for ‘more talented people with similar interests’.

Always quick off the mark, Manchester’s Flickr community has photographed a few of Norris’/Mike’s poems - Ten a penny Jenny is particularly entertaining.

See Norris’ Myspace blog for a few more prime examples.

It’s been difficult to avoid news of the major fire that broke out in Northern Quarter on Monday morning. It made the national headlines, disrupting work and transport throughout the day.

Though the fire started on Dale Street, it eventually spread to Lever Street, which, as the Manchizzle notes, is home to many record labels, publishers and other creative companies.

One of these - D:percussion organiser Ear to the Ground - has been quick to draw up plans for a music event in the neighbouring Stevenson Square on May 28. It will raise money for traders and businesses affected by the blaze and has the support of the council.

Ear to the Ground’s John Drape told today’s Manchester Evening News: ‘Ten years ago when the IRA bomb went off we delivered a similar event and we feel it is appropriate now to hold a fundraising event.’

CIDS, the Northern Quarter-based creative industries development agency, has also offered support in the form of a Mac and desk in its Oak Street office, and has asked anyone affected by the fire or anyone with office space to spare to email info@cids.co.uk.

[The image above is one of several great shots taken by Flickr user root-2]

James over at Yer Mam! has accidentally organised a Manchester blogmeet. It begins at 3pm in the delightful Hare & Hound pub in Shudehill (that’s the edge of the Northern Quarter, for those with blank expressions) on Saturday 7 April.

These things always become fun some time after you’ve finished trading inquisitive glances, trying to work out who people are, and the beer usually sorts the bloggers out from the, er, non-bloggers. Something like that anyway. If you’re not away for the weekend do go along.

But, what’s this, at 3pm on Saturday 7 April there’s a rival geek-meet? Manchester’s Flickr users, you say? Congregating in Piccadilly Gardens and almost certainly heading for pubs in the Northern Quarter?

What happens if the two groups collide? Will there be a horrible mash of broken cameras, laptops and pint glasses? Watch this space from Saturday afternoon to find out.

So the Albert Square flash mob pillow fight took place at 2pm today. IckleWeb has a great set of photos and this video, which is already on YouTube:

There are also plenty of photos appearing on Flickr. The fight spilled out to around Urbis, where the kids were still at it well into the early evening.

UPDATE: Just one arrest, apparently, for hitting a policeman with a beanbag.