diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4df77f0..ba15569 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -16,6 +16,5 @@ graph:
 
 deploy: clean tup
 	rsync --checksum --copy-links -ave 'ssh -p 4242' \
-		--exclude=templates \
-		--exclude=tup* \
+		--exclude-from=rsync_excludes.txt \
 		build/* fab@ffreling.com:public_html/ffreling.com/public/
diff --git a/favicon.ico b/favicon.ico
deleted file mode 100644
index fc2cca2..0000000
Binary files a/favicon.ico and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/rsync_excludes.txt b/rsync_excludes.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a5dba0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rsync_excludes.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+templates*
+tup*
+generated_*.html
+README.html