README: Add Git-less installation instructions

Closes #35.
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Mathias Bynens
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## Installation
### Using Git and the bootstrap script
```bash
git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh
```
When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:
```bash
./.osx
```
To update, `cd` into your local `dotfiles` repository and then:
```bash
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./bootstrap.sh -f
```
### Git-free install
To install these dotfiles without Git:
```bash
cd; curl -#L https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -x --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}
```
To update later on, just run that command again.
### Sensible OS X defaults
When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:
```bash
./.osx
```
## Feedback
Suggestions/improvements
[welcome](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/issues)!
## Thanks to…
* [Gianni Chiappetta](http://gf3.ca/) for sharing his [amazing collection of dotfiles](https://github.com/gf3/dotfiles)
* [Matijs Brinkhuis](http://hotfusion.nl/) and his [homedir repository](https://github.com/matijs/homedir)
* [Jan Moesen](http://jan.moesen.nu/) and his [ancient `.bash_profile`](https://gist.github.com/1156154) + [shiny tilde repository](https://github.com/janmoesen/tilde)