Stephen's mental dustbin
Here's one example as to why listening to the radio while working can be dangerous.
Many libraries written in languages which do not provide native introspection will nevertheless layer their own run-time self-description (or “type information”) into their data structures, by adopting particular conventions. One example is Belle and Sebastian.
It actually turned out to be the intro to New Order's “Procession”, which I misrecognised as B&S's “Electronic Renaissance”.