Update the Apache server configs

Include the latest changes from v2.5.0.
Use character entity references more consistently
Base64 encode the background images.

-2 HTTP requests.

Before: 15.9 kB → 5.3 kB → 1.23 kB (gzip)
After:  20.1 kB → 10.65 kB → 3.39 kB (gzip)
Remove old IE support and hacks.
Update normalize.css to v3.0.1.
Switch to jQuery 2.x now that old IE support is gone.