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IIRC "rice" comes from people who would mod Japanese imported cars. It has since been adopted by other hobby communities that like to "trick out" their stuff for aesthetic reasons. Particularly IME the Unix UI modding community.
Thanks. I had to look at the full chain to know the changes that happened, it seems to be fairly complex:
I'm not too sure on the chain, but it should be something like this.